Cape Town - 2026 ISMRM-ISMRT Annual Meeting and Exhibition
9 May 2026 – 14 May 2026 · Cape Town, South Africa
507-04-003 ISMRM Abstract

BioTTA: Maximizing Domain Generalization in Automatic Fetal Brain Biometry with Test-Time Adaptation

Primary: Pediatrics - Fetal
Secondary: Analysis Methods - Segmentation and Detection
507-04-003 · Advanced Segmentation in MRI Across Scales and Domains · Wednesday, 13 May, 4:00 PM–5:50 PM · Meeting Room 1.40
Keywords: Brain Fetal Development Test-time adaptation (TTA) Automated biometry CROSS-DOMAIN GENERALIZATION
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YIJIN LI1, Mingxuan Liu2, Hongjia Yang2, Xiaotian Hu1, Yi Liao3, Kasidit Anmahapong2, Ziang Wang4, Juncheng Zhu3, Yingqi Hao 2, Yifei Chen2, Haoxiang Li2, Ziyu Li5, Fenglin Jia3, Haibo Qu3, Qiyuan Tian2
1School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, China
2School of Biomedical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
3Department of Radiology, Sichuan University, West China Second University Hospital, Chengdu, China
4Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
5Oxford Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, FMRIB, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, FMRIB Centre, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Presenting Author: Yingqi Hao

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