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Obstetric Ultrasound Modelling and Analysis with Fractal Interpolation Methods

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This study focuses on modelling and analysis of obstetric ultrasound by using fractal interpolation. Firstly, a new way of representing ultrasounds achieving remarkable compression ratios while maintaining the quality of the original images is presented. Then, based on this representation, the possibility of grouping ultrasounds as well as the automatic detection of points of interest in them with the aim of diagnosis is examined. The experimental results indicate that fractal interpolation is a feasible and effective approach to this problem.

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The authors would like to thank Athanasia Karamani, M.D. for her helpful advice on various technical and medical issues examined in this article.

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  1. University of Thessaly, Lamia, Greece

    Vasileios Drakopoulos

  2. Bank of Greece, Athens, Greece

    Polychronis Manousopoulos

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  3. School of Engineering, Polytechnique Porto, Porto, Portugal

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Drakopoulos, V., Manousopoulos, P. (2023). Obstetric Ultrasound Modelling and Analysis with Fractal Interpolation Methods. In: Daimi, K., Alsadoon, A., Seabra Dos Reis, S. (eds) Current and Future Trends in Health and Medical Informatics. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 1112. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42112-9_10

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