Increasing image quality in ultrasound images due to poor facial rendering

Abstract

Methods and systems are provided for identifying a mid-sagittal plane (MSP) in a medical image. In one example, a method for an image processing system comprises obtaining an input volume acquired with an ultrasound imaging system, entering the input volume as input to a segmentation model trained to output a segmentation mask that identifies a segmented fetal head, a first segmented orbit, and a second segmented orbit, identifying a mid-sagittal plane (MSP) of the fetal head using the segmented first orbit and the segmented second orbit, visually displaying the MSP on the segmented fetal head, in response to determining the MSP is not an acquired plane, alerting a user of poor facial rendering or a possibility of poor facial rendering and prompting the user to reorient an ultrasound probe and reacquire the input volume, and displaying the input volume and/or saving the input volume in memory.