General Electric Company

Walter Duda, Jr

Klaus Pintoffl

Francesca Patruno

Christian Fritz Perrey

Nitin Singhal

Kajoli Banerjee Krishnan

Simon Scharinger

Lucienne Van Der Veen

Karl-Heinz Lumpi

A method for automatically monitoring fetal head descent in a birth canal is presented. The method includes segmenting each image in one or more images into a plurality of neighborhood components, determining a cost function corresponding to each neighborhood component in the plurality of neighborhood components in each of the one or more images, identifying at least two structures of interest in each image in the one or more images based on the cost function, wherein the at least two structures of interest include a pubic ramus and a fetal head, measuring an angle of progression based on the at least two structures of interest, and determining the fetal head descent in the birth canal based on the angle of progression.

System and method for automated monitoring of fetal head descent during labor

Various embodiments include a system and method that provide fetal visualization. The method can include acquiring, by an ultrasound system, ultrasound data for a region of interest. The method may include computing, by a processor of the ultrasound system, a fetal measurement based on the acquired ultrasound data. The method can include generating, by the processor, a graphical model based on one or more of the fetal measurement and the acquired ultrasound data. The method may include displaying, at a display system, the computed fetal measurement and the generated graphical model.

Method and system for fetal visualization by computing and displaying an ultrasound measurement and graphical model

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