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ArticleScientific reports2026

A multicentre benchmark dataset for comprehensive landmark-based fetal ultrasound biometry.

Chiara Di Vece, Zhehua Mao, Netanell Avisdris, Brian Dromey, Raffaele Napolitano, Dafna Ben Bashat, Francisco Vasconcelos, Danail Stoyanov, Leo Joskowicz, Sophia Bano

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Chiara Di VeceDepartment of Computer Science and UCL Hawkes Institute, University College London, London, WC1E 6BT, UK. chiara.divece.20@ucl.ac.uk.
Zhehua MaoDepartment of Computer Science and UCL Hawkes Institute, University College London, London, WC1E 6BT, UK.
Netanell AvisdrisTel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Sagol Brain Institute, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Brian DromeyDepartment of Computer Science and UCL Hawkes Institute, University College London, London, WC1E 6BT, UK.
Raffaele NapolitanoFetal Medicine Unit, Women's Health Division, UCLH NHS Foundation Trust and Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, Institute for Women's Health, University College London, London, UK.
Dafna Ben BashatTel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Sagol Brain Institute, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Francisco VasconcelosDepartment of Computer Science and UCL Hawkes Institute, University College London, London, WC1E 6BT, UK.
Danail StoyanovDepartment of Computer Science and UCL Hawkes Institute, University College London, London, WC1E 6BT, UK.
Leo JoskowiczSchool of Computer Science and Engineering, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel.
Sophia BanoDepartment of Computer Science and UCL Hawkes Institute, University College London, London, WC1E 6BT, UK.

Funding

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council EP/P027938/1, EP/R004080/1, EP/P012841/1, NS/A000027/1Horizon 2020 Framework Programme 863146Israel Innovation Authority Kamin Grants 63418, 72126Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies programme CiET1819/2/36Wellcome / EPSRC Centre for Interventional and Surgical Sciences 203145/Z/16/ZWellcome TrustWellcome Trust WT101957
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Abstract

Accurate fetal growth assessment from ultrasound (US) relies on precise biometry measured by manually identifying anatomical landmarks in standard planes. Manual annotation of landmarks is time-consuming, operator-dependent, and sensitive to variability across scanners and sites, limiting the reproducibility of automated approaches. There is a need for multi-source, annotated datasets to develop artificial intelligence-assisted fetal growth assessment methods. To address this bottleneck, we present an open-access, multicentre benchmark dataset of fetal US images with expert anatomical landmark annotations for clinically used fetal biometric measurements. These measurements include head biparietal and occipitofrontal diameters, abdominal transverse and anteroposterior diameters, and femoral length. The dataset contains 4,513 de-identified US images from 1,904 subjects acquired at four clinical sites using seven different US devices. We provide subject-disjoint train/test splits, evaluation code, and baseline results to enable fair and reproducible comparisons of methods. Using an automated landmark-based fetal biometry model on pre-selected standard planes, we quantify domain shift and show that training and evaluation confined to a single centre can overestimate performance relative to multicentre testing. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first publicly available multicentre, multi-device, landmark-annotated dataset that covers all primary fetal biometry measures, providing a robust benchmark for studying domain shift and multicentre generalisation and enabling more reliable AI-assisted fetal biometry across centres. All data and annotations are available on the UCL Research Data Repository . Training code and evaluation pipelines are available at https://github.com/surgical-vision/Multicentre-Fetal-Biometry.git .

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Anatomic LandmarksBiometryFetal DevelopmentFetusUltrasonography, PrenatalBenchmarkingFemaleHumansPregnancyReproducibility of ResultsBenchmarkBiometryDeep learningDomain shiftFetal ultrasoundLandmark detectionMulticentre dataset

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PMCPMC13237054

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