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Technopreneurial Filtering Technique for Speckle Noise Reduction in Ultrasound Imaging of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome Pandey, Pratibha; Chaudhary, Sumit; Nie, Xin
Aptisi Transactions On Technopreneurship (ATT) Vol 7 No 3 (2025): November
Publisher : Pandawan

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.34306/att.v7i3.767

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Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) is a common endocrine disorder in women that is frequently diagnosed by ultrasound imaging by examining ovarian abnormality. Ultrasound images, though, are normally contaminated with speckle noise that degrades image quality and poses difficulties for diagnosis. Conventional denoising methods like mean and median filtering are unable to eliminate noise properly while maintaining fine details. To solve this problem, this paper introduces a new Attention-based Autoencoder (AAE) for denoising PCOS ultrasound images. The model uses an attention mechanism to selectively amplify significant image areas and suppress noise, enhancing image quality for diagnosis. The introduced method was tested on a publicly available ultrasound dataset with synthetic speckle noise at various levels (variance 0.5, 0.02, and 0.001). Experimental results prove that the suggested method performs better than conventional denoising methods, with peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) values of 31.33, 34.25, and 36.23, respectively. The structural similarity index measure (SSIM) also reveals notable improvements and corresponding scores of 85.21, 92.33, and 99.25. Beyond technical performance, this work supports the development of scalable, AI-driven PCOS diagnostic tools within a technopreneurship incubator model. These results indicate that AAEs can improve ultrasound image quality, facilitating more accurate PCOS diagnosis.
Deep Learning Technique for Interpretable Diagnosis of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome in Ultrasound Imaging Pandey, Pratibha; Chaudhary, Sumit; Nie, Xin
Aptisi Transactions On Technopreneurship (ATT) Vol 7 No 3 (2025): November
Publisher : Pandawan

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.34306/att.v7i3.768

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Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) is a widespread condition in women that is associated with hormonal disorders, absentee or infrequent menstruation, and cyst formation on ovaries. The diagnostic process of PCOS is still difficult because of ambiguity in ultrasound images. Earlier approaches emphasize the detection and classification of follicles for ultrasound images and disregard interpretability, which obscures understanding the model’s decisions and trustworthiness in critical medical applications. This research proposes a method of diagnosing PCOS in two stages. Initially, follicles are located with a YOLOv8 model that has multiscale feature dose attention. Follicles are subsequently classified with a ResNet50 model that has SE blocks. The last step is for Grad-CAM to show which features of the image were used by the classification model in order to explain its decision and provide meaningful insights regarding the model's predictions. Evaluation was performed on two publicly available datasets. The proposed method outperforms all other methods in follicle detection with 92% mean average precision (mAP) and classification accuracies of 98.25% and 94.56% on datasets 1 and 2, respectively. This result makes the proposed model a reliable and transparent technique for robust clinical applications. By providing a scalable, deployable, and interpretable diagnostic pipeline that can be integrated into AI-based health-tech platforms, the suggested method also fits with the objectives of technopreneurship incubator models.