AUTOMATIC FETAL BIOMETRY MEASUREMENT FROM ULTRASOUND IMAGES
SASIMEKALA M M, Dr. S. POONGUZHALI
Master of Engineering in Medical Electronics, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, College of Engineering Guindy, Chennai-25
ABSTRACT
To measure the Fetal Biometry Parameter the special
measurement tool is developed. It can also detect, analyzing
organ structure and measure the parameters in fetal body. The
goal of this research is to use Ultrasound pictures to discover and
assess fetal characteristics like AC (Abdominal Circumference)
and BPD (Bi-parietal Diameter). This tool is used to for
analysis, that is time-consuming and is commonly used in
obstetrics and gynaecology for fetal biometry. Because
ultrasound pictures are patient-specific, operator-dependent, and
machine-specific, automated ultrasound image analysis is
difficult. There are many Fetal biometry is required to measure
for fetal analysis, The abdominal circumference (AC) is one of
the most difficult forms of foetal biometry to conduct because of
the poor contrast against the surroundings, non-uniform contrast,
and uneven shape. Hence the automation in fetal Biometry
measurement for Abdominal Circumference is the main moto of
this study. Thus the Ultrasonography measurement tool is
proposed.
METHODOLOGY
The block diagram of the proposed work is shown in Figure 1.
Figure 1. Block diagram for Proposed work
The fetal ultrasound images will be collected as DICOM format
and converted into JPEG format to implement the image processing
technique. The calibration module is designed to convert the required
area to be measure from pixel in to cm. Here the Edge Detection
Filter is used, which functions within the cropped image and detect
two points as the Edges within the same column. Followed by
collecting “All pixels value” within the filtered area. The Value is
displayed as Pixels/cm, (ie) the total value of pixel collected will
be considered as 1 cm. Then the ROI is initiated by drawing a straight
line covering the Circumference Diameter. From the cropped ROI the
Pixel values are arranged as a 2 Dimensional Array. Using a
specifically constructed filter, we attempt to locate the edges.
To achieve the sharp edge contouring, the developed filter is used. At
Once the Line is drawn, the system will filter the Edges and
make Edge Contouring to detect the Diameter. The Measurement tool
module is designed to measure Abdominal Circumference (AC).
RESULT AND DISCUSSION
The fetal ultrasound image which is preprocessed, and loaded
into the front panel of the Tool.
Figure 2: Fetal Ultrasound image loaded in front panel
Click Calibration icon, to calibrate the ultrasound image
pixels. We have to select the Rectangular column cropped image for
calibration.Step 1 - At once it is selected followed by double click
the tool will pop up a confirmation message (Fig 7.3).Step 2 - Once
it’s confirmed the Calibration tool works out and gives the Pixels
value as “1cm.
Figure 3 : Calibrated Image
It consist of pixel calibration value mentioned as 75 Pixels/cm. The
single pixel value will differ from images.
REGION OF INTEREST SELCTION
Draw Major axis and minor axis covering the
circumference of Ultrasound images. Then get four Region of
Interest ,to perform Edge detection filter.
The edge detection filter works for detecting the accurate edges.The
filter will cover each and pixel intensity value to have a better
measurement tool. After filtering the value of both the axis are
mentioned.
Figure 4 Four ROI Selected Image with Major axis and Minor axis
MEASUREMENT TOOL
Click Measurement tool, with the help of Major axis and minor axis
value the circumference value is calculated in a single click.
Figure 6 : Fetal Ultrasound image with AC Measurement
The Abdominal Circumference is measured in this input image
as 15.44 cm. Thus the AC values can be measured only with the Fetal
ultrasound images as a Post Processing. The Analysis of AC
measurement is made for each and every result, by implementing the
same measurement tool for 5 times each in 25 different fetal input
images from Data set.
The result obtained by testing the tool is shown, which states that for
every trails the value are considered as same and only little variation for
each trails is observed.
CONCLUSION
 Thus, the Fetal biometry- Abdominal Circumference is
measured from Fetal Ultrasound Images. A Specially designed Filter is
evaluated by the help of Data set. Comparing with the readymade
filters, this filter is compatible or all ultrasound images with sharp
edge contouring, there is approximately same value obtained for every
trail, so there is no different values for each trail, which is considered
as a major flaw in mannuall measurement. Moreover, it is an easy tool
to have multiple image measurement in a very less time which also
reduce the error rate. The future work would be the proposed algorithm
encoded with completed automated .