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Chinese Journal of Biomedical Engineering  2018, Vol. 37 Issue (5): 521-528    DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.0258-8021.2018.05.002
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Placental Maturity Grading via Hybrid Descriptors and Fisher Vector
Jiang Feng1,Ni Dong1,Chen Siping1,Yao Yuan2,Wang Tianfu1*,Lei Baiying1*
1(School of Biomedical Engineering, Health Science Center, Shenzhen University, National-Regional Key Technology Engineering Laboratory for Medical Ultrasound, Guangdong Key Laboratory for Biomedical Measurements and Ultrasound Imaging, Shenzhen 518060, Guangdong, China)
2(Department of Ultrasound, Affiliated Shenzhen Maternal and Child Healthcare, Hospital of Nanfang Medical University, Shenzhen 518060, Guangdong, China)
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Abstract  Placental maturity grading (PMG) is very essential to assess fetal growth and maternal health. However, PMG has mostly relied on the clinician’s subjective judgment, which is time-consuming and subjective. A dditionally it may cause wrong estimation because of redundancy and repeatability of the process. Traditional machine learning-based methods capitalize on handcrafted features, but such features may be essentially insufficient for PMG. In order to tackle it, we proposed an automatic method to stage placental maturity via deep hybrid descriptors extracted from B-mode ultrasound (BUS) and color Doppler energy (CDE) images. Specifically, convolutional descriptors extracted from a deep convolutional neural network (CNN) and hand-crafted features were combined to form hybrid descriptors to boost the performance of the proposed method. Firstly, different models with various feature layers were combined to obtain hybrid descriptors from images. Meanwhile, the transfer learning strategy was utilized to enhance the grading performance based on the deep representation features. Then, extracted descriptors were encoded by Fisher vector (FV). Finally, we used support vector machine (SVM) as the classifier to grade placental maturity. We used placental data labeled by doctors to test models. The accuracy of the model with hybrid descriptors based on the 19-layer network was 94.15%, which was 3.01% higher than that of the model with hand-crafted features and 7.35% higher than the CNN feature model. The experimental results demonstrated that the proposed method could be applied to the automatic PMG effectively.
Key wordsplacental maturity grading      ultrasound image      deep convolutional network      hybrid descriptors      Fisher vector     
Received: 16 October 2017     
PACS:  R318  
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Jiang Feng,Ni Dong,Chen Siping, et al. Placental Maturity Grading via Hybrid Descriptors and Fisher Vector[J]. Chinese Journal of Biomedical Engineering, 2018, 37(5): 521-528.
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