Paper ID: 2402.08294

Learning semantic image quality for fetal ultrasound from noisy ranking annotation

Manxi Lin, Jakob Ambsdorf, Emilie Pi Fogtmann Sejer, Zahra Bashir, Chun Kit Wong, Paraskevas Pegios, Alberto Raheli, Morten Bo Søndergaard Svendsen, Mads Nielsen, Martin Grønnebæk Tolsgaard, Anders Nymark Christensen, Aasa Feragen

We introduce the notion of semantic image quality for applications where image quality relies on semantic requirements. Working in fetal ultrasound, where ranking is challenging and annotations are noisy, we design a robust coarse-to-fine model that ranks images based on their semantic image quality and endow our predicted rankings with an uncertainty estimate. To annotate rankings on training data, we design an efficient ranking annotation scheme based on the merge sort algorithm. Finally, we compare our ranking algorithm to a number of state-of-the-art ranking algorithms on a challenging fetal ultrasound quality assessment task, showing the superior performance of our method on the majority of rank correlation metrics.

Submitted: Feb 13, 2024