How much can AI see in early pregnancy: A multi-center study of fetus head characterization in week 10-14 in ultrasound using deep learning

Qi Lin, Yuli Zhou, Siyuan Shi, Yujuan Zhang, Shaoli Yin, Xuye Liu, Qihui Peng, Shaoting Huang, Yitao Jiang, Chen Cui, Ruilian She, Jinfeng Xu, Fajin Dong

Abstract: Highlights•A novel Fetus framework to auto-select standard images from fetal ultrasound screening is proposed.•Fetus Framework outperforms human experts with 1-, 3- and 5-year ultrasound training in the standard/ non-standard images classification task.•A novel ‘divide-and-conquer’ principle to improve key structure detection of fetus head is applied to Fetus framework.•Superior generalization capacity of Fetus Framework to classic CNN models has been confirmed by the external test.