Measurement of nuchal translucency thickness in first trimester ultrasound fetal images for detection of chromosomal abnormalities

Author

Nirmala, S. ; Palanisamy, V.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Commun. Eng., Muthayammal Eng. Coll., Rasipuram, India

fYear

2009

fDate

4-6 June 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

The Nuchal Translucency thickness measurement is made to identify the down syndrome in screening first trimester fetus and presented in this paper. The mean shift analysis and canny operators are utilized for segmenting the nuchal translucency region and the exact thickness has been estimated using Blob analysis. It is observed from the results that the fetus in the 14th week of Gestation is expected to have a nuchal translucency thickness of 1.85 plusmn 0.48 mm.

Keywords

biomedical ultrasonics; diseases; medical image processing; obstetrics; thickness measurement; Blob analysis; canny operators; chromosomal abnormality detection; down syndrome; mean shift analysis; nuchal translucency thickness measurement; ultrasound fetal images; Automatic control; Biological cells; Birth disorders; Fetus; Genetics; Heart; Image edge detection; Thickness measurement; Ultrasonic imaging; Ultrasonic variables measurement; Blob analysis; Down syndrome; Mean Shift Analysis; Nuchal translucency thickness;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Control, Automation, Communication and Energy Conservation, 2009. INCACEC 2009. 2009 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Perundurai, Tamilnadu

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4789-3

Type

conf

Filename

5204467