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FLDS: An Intelligent Feature Learning Detection System for Visualizing Medical Images Supporting Fetal Four-Chamber Views

Qiao, Sibo, Pang, Shanchen, Luo, Gang, Pan, Silin, Chen, Taotao, Lv, Zhihan·2022·IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics

Abstract

Fetal congenital heart disease (CHD) is the most common type of fatal congenital malformation. Fetal four-chamber (FC) view is a significant and easily accessible ultrasound (US) image among fetal echocardiography images. Automatic detection of four fetal heart chambers considerably contributes to the early diagnosis of fetal CHD. Furthermore, robust and discriminative features are essential for detecting crucial visualizing medical images, especially fetal FC views. However, it is an incredibly challenging task due to several key factors, such as numerous speckles in US images, the fetal four chambers with small size and unfixed positions, and category confusion caused by the similarity of cardiac chambers. These factors hinder the process of capturing robust and discriminative features, hence destroying the fetal four chambers’ precise detection. Therefore, we propose an intelligent feature learning detection system (FLDS) for FC views to detect the four chambers. A multistage residual hybrid attention module (MRHAM) presented in this paper is incorporated in the FLDS for learning powerful and robust features, helping FLDS accurately locate the four chambers in the fetal FC views. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our proposed FLDS outperforms the current state-of-the-art, including the precision of 0.919, the recall of 0.971, the$F_{1}$score of 0.944, the mAP of 0.953, and the frames per second (FPS) of 43. In addition, our proposed FLDS is also validated on other visualizing nature images such as the PASCAL VOC dataset, achieving a higher mAP of 0.878 while input size is 608 × 608.

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  • Dong et al. demonstrated a mean average precision of 94.52% for quality control of the four-chamber view.

    “Three studies proposed automated systems for detection and evaluation of the fetal four-chamber view whereas Dong et al. proposed a deep learning framework for quality control of the four-chamber view, demonstrating a mean average precision of 94.52%.80-83”

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Authors
Qiao, S., Pang, S., Luo, G., Pan, S., Chen, T., & Lv, Z.
Affiliations
  • China University of Petroleum, East China (CN)
  • Qingdao Women and Children's Hospital (CN)
  • Qingdao University (CN)
Venue
IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics
Published
2022-10
Volume
26
Issue
10
Pages
4814-4825
ISSN
  • 2168-2194 (ISSN-L)
  • 2168-2208
OpenAlex
W3176065905
Cited by
41
References
56
Citations by year
2026: 7 · 2025: 11 · 2024: 7 · 2023: 6 · 2022: 9 · 2021: 1
FWCI
2.07
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
  • Major Science and Technology Innovation Project of Shandong Province (2019TSLH0214)
  • Tai Shan Industry Leading Talent Project (tscy20180416)
  • National Natural Science Foundation of China (61873281, 61672033, 61972416)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Medical Image Segmentation Techniques
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Advanced Neural Network Applications
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Health Informatics › Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education
Keywords
fetal echocardiography, fetal congenital heart disease, medical image segmentation, representation learning, ultrasound speckle, category confusion, object detection
MeSH terms
Echocardiography, Female, Fetal Heart, Heart Defects, Congenital, Humans, Pregnancy, Ultrasonography, Prenatal, Volatile Organic Compounds

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