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Published on: February 15, 2013
FetalDenseNet: multi-scale deep learning for enhanced early detection of fetal anatomical planes in prenatal
Samrat Kumar Dey1,2, Arpita Howlader3, Md Shabukta Haider2
1MU Institute for Data Science and Informatics, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO, USA.
Objectives:
The study aims to improve the classification of fetal anatomical planes using Deep Learning (DL) methods to enhance the accuracy of fetal ultrasound interpretation.
Methods:
Five Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) architectures, such as VGG16, ResNet50, InceptionV3, DenseNet169, and MobileNetV2, are evaluated on a large-scale, clinically validated dataset of 12,400 ultrasound images from 1,792 patients. Preprocessing methods, including scaling, normalization, label encoding, and augmentation, are applied to the dataset, and the dataset is split into 80 % for training and 20 % for testing. Each model was fine-tuned and evaluated based on its classification accuracy for comparison.
Results:
DenseNet169 achieved the highest classification accuracy of 92 % among all the tested models.
Conclusions:
The study shows that CNN-based models, particularly DenseNet169, significantly improve diagnostic accuracy in fetal ultrasound interpretation. This advancement reduces error rates and provides support for clinical decision-making in prenatal care.
