Automatic measurements of fetal long bones. A feasibility study.

We investigated whether it would be possible for a computer to propose values for measurements commonly obtained (femur and humerus) during obstetrical sonography. In this preliminary study, the images were scanned and analyzed off‐line using morphological operators. The procedure described allowed us to measure the long bones and has a very high coefficient of correlation with measurements obtained by humans. Ideally, the whole procedure could probably be part of the computer instructions that are built into the machine.

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