Soft Temporal Scoring Using a Foundation Model: Optimal Frame Selection for Improved ONSD Measurement in Ultrasound Videos
Ali, M.; Castaneda, L. M.; Wu, C.; Escamilla-Ocanas, C. E.; Hirzallah, M.; Brattain, L. J.
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Medical ultrasound is a portable, non-invasive, and cost effective imaging modality that is particularly well suited for resource-limited settings. Optic nerve sheath diameter (ONSD) measurement from ultrasound is used as a point-of-care assessment tool for intracranial pressure (ICP), which is associated with several neurological conditions. However, valid measurement depends on selecting a frame in which the optic nerve sheath is clearly visible. Manual selection requires a high level of expertise. To enable the use of ONSD in low resource settings by medical personnel of all levels, we present a sparsely supervised AI framework that scores each frame of an ONSD ultrasound video and selects the optimal frame for ONSD assessment. Per-frame embeddings from an ultrasound foundation model (USFM) are passed to a lightweight temporal head and trained using Gaussian soft labels, which assign graded targets around labeled key frames, rather than hard binary (0/1) per-frame targets. We evaluate the model performance using subject-level cross-validation on 18 subjects and 323 ultrasound videos spanning nine acquisition sweep types. Top-k frame selection is used as a metric for direct comparison against the baselines. While only requiring sparse labels, our method can identify an optimal frame in 82.2% of the evaluated sweeps, exceeding the strongest training-free baseline (49.2%) and hard-label classification (71.9%).
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