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© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014. This paper develops a novel approach to find the plane in a 3D fetal ultrasound scan which corresponds to the 2D diagnostic plane used in cranial ultrasound of a neonate to allow image-based biomarkers to be tracked from pre-birth through the first weeks of post-birth life. We propose a method based on regression forests (RF) with important algorithm design considerations taken into account to provide an accurate plane-finding solution. Specifically, the new method constrains the RF method by 1) using informative voxels and voxel informative strength as a weighting within the training stage objective function u, and 2) introducing regularization of the RF by proposing a geometrical feature within the training stage. Results on clinical data indicate that the new automated method is more reproducible than manual plane finding.

Type

Journal article

Journal

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Publication Date

01/01/2014

Volume

8679

Pages

109 - 116