Fetal Head and Femur Detection from USG image to Estimate Gestational Age

Ultrasonography of fetal head can be used as one of the ways to measure the gestational age. However, its result does not always provide accurate information due to the poor quality of the image and the result is very dependent on the doctor observation so it is possible for errors to occur in the identification process. To reduce the errors of the identification, this paper conducted a research on the detection and segmentation of fetal head ultrasound image in order to get more accurate result of the estimation of gestational age. This paper also uses femur length of fetal as an additional parameter to increase the accuracy level of the result. Integral Projection is trained to get the object of the fetal head and femur. Biparietal Diameter (BPD) and Femur Length (FL) is parameter used to determine gestational age. From the result of the research, the proposed method can estimate gestational age more easily and more accurately. The accuracy rate for estimated gestational age was 97.77%.