Arora U, Sengupta D, Kumar M, Tirupathi K, Sai MK, Hareesh A, Sai Chaithanya ES, Nikhila V, Bhavana N, Vigneshwar P, Rani A, Yadav R. Perceiving placental ultrasound image texture evolution during pregnancy with normal and adverse outcome through machine learning prism.
Placenta 2023;
140:109-116. [PMID:
37572594 DOI:
10.1016/j.placenta.2023.07.014]
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Abstract
INTRODUCTION
The objective was to perform placental ultrasound image texture (UPIA) in first (T1), second(T2) and third(T3) trimesters of pregnancy using machine learning( ML).
METHODS
In this prospective observational study the 2D placental ultrasound (US) images from 11-14 weeks, 20-24 weeks, and 28-32 weeks were taken. The image data was divided into training, validating, and testing subsets in the ratio of 80%, 10%, and 10%. Three different ML techniques, deep learning, transfer learning, and vision transformer were used for UPIA.
RESULTS
Out of 1008 cases included in the study, 59.5% (600/1008) had a normal outcome. The image texture classification was compared between T1&T2, T2 &T3 and T1&T3 pairs. Using Inception v3 model, to classify T1& T2 images, gave the accuracy, Cohen Kappa score of 83.3%, 0.662 respectively. The image classification between T1&T3 achieved best results using EfficientNetB0 model, having the accuracy, Cohen Kappa score, sensitivity and specificity of 87.5%, 0.749, 83.4%, and 88.9% respectively. Comparison of placental image texture among cases with materno-fetal adverse outcome and controls was done using Efficient Net B0. The F1 score, was found to be 0.824 , 0.820, and 0.892 in T1, T2 and T3 respectively. The sensitivity and specificity of the model was 77.4% at 80.2% at T1 but increased to 81.0% and 93.9% at T2 &T3 respectively.
DISCUSSION
The study presents a novel technique to classify placental ultrasound image texture using ML models and could differentiate first and third-trimester normal placenta and normal and adverse pregnancy outcome images with good accuracy.
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