IMPORTANCE: Accurate screening of trisomy 21 in the first trimester can provide an early opportunity for decision-making regarding reproductive choices.
Intended pregnancy is one of the significant indicators of women's well-being. Globally, 74 million women become pregnant every year without planning. Unintended pregnancies account for 28% of all pregnancies among married women in Bangladesh. This s...
PURPOSE: Fetal head circumference (HC) is an important biometric parameter that can be used to assess fetal development in obstetric clinical practice. Most of the existing methods use deep neural network to accomplish the task of automatic fetal HC ...
OBJECTIVES: Fetal sex determination with ultrasound (US) examination is indicated in pregnancies at risk of X-linked genetic disorders or ambiguous genitalia. However, misdiagnoses often arise due to operator inexperience and technical difficulties w...
Introduction: Intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy complicates 1% of pregnancies. It increases the risk of severe fetal complications significantly, including preterm delivery and stillbirth. Objective: To summarize our experience with serum total b...
International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery
May 12, 2022
PURPOSE: For highly operator-dependent ultrasound scanning, skill assessment approaches evaluate operator competence given available data, such as acquired images and tracked probe movement. Operator skill level can be quantified by the completeness,...
Nucleated red blood cells (NRBCs) as a type of rare cell present in an adult's peripheral blood is a concern in hematology, intensive care medicine and prenatal diagnostics. However, it is labor-intensive to screen such rare cells from real complex c...
International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery
Apr 30, 2022
PURPOSE: In obstetric ultrasound (US) scanning, the learner's ability to mentally build a three-dimensional (3D) map of the fetus from a two-dimensional (2D) US image represents a major challenge in skill acquisition. We aim to build a US plane local...
Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
Apr 26, 2022
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Adequate support in maternity wards is decisive for breastfeeding outcomes during the first year of life. Quality improvement interventions require the identification of the factors influencing hospital benchmark indicators....
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