A Foundational EDM2-Based Generative Model for High-Resolution Synthetic Fetal Ultrasound Imaging from Open Datasets

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.05471v1
• Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2026 23:39:48 GMT
• Title: A Foundational EDM2-Based Generative Model for High-Resolution Synthetic Fetal Ultrasound Imaging from Open Datasets
• Abstract summary: We propose a high-resolution fetal ultrasound synthesis framework based on the EDM2 diffusion architecture.<n>Our method achieved improved image quality with lower FID scores and enhanced downstream fetal plane classification, reaching 93.36% ensemble accuracy after fine-tuning.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: Prenatal ultrasound imaging is key for assessing fetal health, but AI progress is limited by scarce, privacy-restricted, and hard-to-annotate datasets. We propose a high-resolution fetal ultrasound synthesis framework based on the EDM2 diffusion architecture, trained on multiple public datasets to generate 512x512 images across six anatomical classes. Our method achieved improved image quality with lower FID scores and enhanced downstream fetal plane classification, reaching 93.36% ensemble accuracy after fine-tuning, surpassing real-data-only training. Clinical evaluation by an experienced fetal ultrasound specialist (10+ years) on 100 images yielded a mean realism score of 2.67/5, with real images rated higher than synthetic. Artefacts included smoothing, speckle irregularities, and anatomical inconsistencies. Code, data, models and other resources to reproduce this work are available at https://github.com/xfetus/fetal-ultrasound-edm2.

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