“A pilot project in Uganda is using AI software to power ultrasound imaging to not only scan unborn babies but also to encourage women to attend health services at an earlier stage in their pregnancies, helping to reduce stillbirths and complications. 

Low- and middle-income countries tend to have very few trained specialists to carry out scans, and equipment is concentrated in urban hospitals that can be a long and costly journey from rural women’s homes…

The AI-based ScanNav FetalCheck software, made by Intelligent Ultrasound, will allow accurate dating of pregnancies without the need for specialist sonographers who take measurements of a child in the womb to determine the progress of a pregnancy. The software has been trained on a database of millions of images to ‘recognise’ a pregnancy’s gestation.”

From The Guardian.