Expert-Agnostic Ultrasound Image Quality Assessment using Deep Variational Clustering

Deepak Raina,Dimitrios Ntentia,SH Chandrashekhara,Richard Voyles,Subir Kumar Saha,Deepak Raina,Dimitrios Ntentia,SH Chandrashekhara,Richard Voyles,Subir Kumar Saha

Ultrasound imaging is a commonly used modality for several diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. However, the diagnosis by ultrasound relies heavily on the quality of images assessed manually by sonographers, which diminishes the objectivity of the diagnosis and makes it operator-dependent. The supervised learning-based methods for automated quality assessment require manually annotated datasets,...