PURPOSE: To detect the endometrial volume change in conception cycles. Additionally we measured endometrium in three planes, to see if the hypothesized endometrial volume differences will be detectable by this surrogate technique. CONCLUSIONS: In this study we have shown that in normal intrauterine pregnancy after IVF/ET, prominent endometrial volume growth can be detected by a three-dimensional ultrasound over the course of several days. Moreover, in patients who did not conceive in a particular cycle, a decrease in endometrial volume can be seen.
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Precise detection of different structures in ovarian ultrasound volumes (in particular follicles) still need additional, mainly off-line processing with specialized algorithms. Manual annotation of entire 3D ultrasound volume consisting of 100 and more slices is a tedious task. Our paper reveals how an application of support vector machines (SVM) can ease the follicle detection by speeding up the learning and annotation process at the same time. An iterative SVM approach is introduced using training on sparse learning sets only.
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