Towards Objective Obstetric Ultrasound Assessment: Contrastive Representation Learning for Fetal Movement Detection

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.20214v1
• Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2025 05:03:23 GMT
• Title: Towards Objective Obstetric Ultrasound Assessment: Contrastive Representation Learning for Fetal Movement Detection
• Authors: Talha Ilyas, Duong Nhu, Allison Thomas, Arie Levin, Lim Wei Yap, Shu Gong, David Vera Anaya, Yiwen Jiang, Deval Mehta, Ritesh Warty, Vinayak Smith, Maya Reddy, Euan Wallace, Wenlong Cheng, Zongyuan Ge, Faezeh Marzbanrad,
• Abstract summary: We propose Contrastive Ultrasound Video Representation Learning (CURL), a novel self-supervised learning framework for fetal movement analysis.<n>CURL achieves a sensitivity of 78.01% and an AUROC of 81.60%, demonstrating its potential for reliable and objective FM analysis.
• Score: 11.146143798185927
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Accurate fetal movement (FM) detection is essential for assessing prenatal health, as abnormal movement patterns can indicate underlying complications such as placental dysfunction or fetal distress. Traditional methods, including maternal perception and cardiotocography (CTG), suffer from subjectivity and limited accuracy. To address these challenges, we propose Contrastive Ultrasound Video Representation Learning (CURL), a novel self-supervised learning framework for FM detection from extended fetal ultrasound video recordings. Our approach leverages a dual-contrastive loss, incorporating both spatial and temporal contrastive learning, to learn robust motion representations. Additionally, we introduce a task-specific sampling strategy, ensuring the effective separation of movement and non-movement segments during self-supervised training, while enabling flexible inference on arbitrarily long ultrasound recordings through a probabilistic fine-tuning approach. Evaluated on an in-house dataset of 92 subjects, each with 30-minute ultrasound sessions, CURL achieves a sensitivity of 78.01% and an AUROC of 81.60%, demonstrating its potential for reliable and objective FM analysis. These results highlight the potential of self-supervised contrastive learning for fetal movement analysis, paving the way for improved prenatal monitoring and clinical decision-making.

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