An EHG-based Preterm Delivery Prediction Algorithm via Convolution Neural Network / 中国医疗器械杂志

Premature delivery is one of the direct factors that affect the early development and safety of infants. Its direct clinical manifestation is the change of uterine contraction intensity and frequency. Uterine Electrohysterography(EHG) signal collected from the abdomen of pregnant women can accurately and effectively reflect the uterine contraction, which has higher clinical application value than invasive monitoring technology such as intrauterine pressure catheter. Therefore, the research of fetal preterm birth recognition algorithm based on EHG is particularly important for perinatal fetal monitoring. We proposed a convolution neural network(CNN) based on EHG fetal preterm birth recognition algorithm, and a deep CNN model was constructed by combining the Gramian angular difference field(GADF) with the transfer learning technology. The structure of the model was optimized using the clinical measured term-preterm EHG database. The classification accuracy of 94.38% and F1 value of 97.11% were achieved. The experimental results showed that the model constructed in this paper has a certain auxiliary diagnostic value for clinical prediction of premature delivery.

Method on automatic location of inserts in electron density phantom / 中国医学影像技术

Objective: To investigate automatic location of inserts in the electron density phantom (CIRS 062) based on deep neural network (DCNN). Methods Firstly, four inserts in CIRS 062 were segmented with DCNN model, namely the inhaled lung, the exhaled lung, the solid trabecular bone and the solid dense bone. Then Moore-neighbor tracking algorithm was used to process the segmentation results to obtain the precise segmentation edges. Finally, the other four inserts were located based on the geometric features. Results The results of Dice similarity coefficient were all >0.85, the precision were all >0.81, and F1-measure were all >0.61 based on DCNN. Conclusion The method based on DCNN can realize the automatic positioning of the inserts.