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Medical imaging for fetal diseases

Guest Editor

Hakan Golbasi, MD, Bakircay University Cigli Training and Research Hospital, Turkiye 


BMC Medical Imaging called for submissions to our Collection on Medical imaging for fetal diseases. This Collection welcomed studies that describe the development, improvement, or novel application of imaging procedures for fetal diagnosis and therapy, as well as clinical studies assessing their diagnostic quality.

Meet the Guest Editor

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Hakan Golbasi, MD, Bakircay University Cigli Training and Research Hospital, Turkiye

Hakan Golbasi graduated from Ege University Faculty of Medicine in Izmir, Turkey in 2012. After working as an assistant doctor in Gynecology and Obstetrics for four years, he became a Gynecology and Obstetrics specialist in 2017. Afterwards, he specialized in Perinatology for three years and became a Perinatology specialist in 2021. In 2023, he was awarded the title of Associate Professor by the Turkish Interuniversity Board. Hakan Golbasi have been a member of the Editorial Board of BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth since 2023.


About the Collection

BMC Medical Imaging is calling for submissions to our Collection on Medical imaging for fetal diseases. The standard approach for detecting fetal abnormalities and maternal diseases in pregnancy has been based on ultrasound. Recently, a number of imaging techniques, in particular magnetic resonance, have been successfully introduced for detecting, identifying, managing various diseases and this requires the development and evaluation of new procedures for implementation into clinical practice.

This Collection welcomes studies that describe the development, improvement, or novel application of imaging procedures for fetal diagnosis and therapy, as well as clinical studies assessing their diagnostic quality.


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  1. Accurate prediction of foetal gestational age is of critical importance as it can positively affect the outcome of pregnancy. Routine sonographic estimation of gestational age using biparietal diameter, head c...

    Authors: Okechukwu Uche Ofoegbu, Nicholas Irurhe, Tersur Terry Saalu, Oluwaseun Emmanuel Familusi, Charity Opeoluwapo Maduagu, Lucky Enajite Tietie, Olaniyi Araotan Kusamotu and Ochuwa Adiketu Babah
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2025 25:100
  2. To investigate the clinical value of fetal heart quantification (fetal HQ) in the evaluation of right ventricular size, morphology and cardiac function in fetuses with redundancy foramen ovale flap (RFOF).

    Authors: Xiao-Rong Su, Ai-Lin Wang, Hong-Xia Tie, Qiong-Yu Yang, Shu-Na Cao and Tian-Gang Li
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2025 25:62
  3. This study aimed to evaluate the effect of maternal vitamin D use during intrauterine life on fetal bone development using ultrasonographic image processing techniques.

    Authors: Fatma Ozdemir, Banu Acmaz, Fatma Latifoglu, Sabahattin Muhtaroglu, Nefise Tanrıdan Okcu, Gokhan Acmaz and Iptisam Ipek Muderris
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2025 25:20
  4. Ultrasound (US) imaging is an essential diagnostic technique in prenatal care, enabling enhanced surveillance of fetal growth and development. Fetal ultrasonography standard planes are crucial for evaluating f...

    Authors: S. Rathika, K. Mahendran, H. Sudarsan and S. Vijay Ananth
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2024 24:337
  5. To undertake a systematic review to assess the accuracy of fetal MRI in diagnosis of non-CNS congenital anomalies of the fetal body in comparison with antenatal ultrasound when correlated to postnatal diagnosis.

    Authors: Louise Wilson and Elspeth H. Whitby
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2024 24:111
  6. This study explores the potential of 3D Slice-to-Volume Registration (SVR) motion-corrected fetal MRI for craniofacial assessment, traditionally used only for fetal brain analysis. In addition, we present the ...

    Authors: Jacqueline Matthew, Alena Uus, Leah De Souza, Robert Wright, Abi Fukami-Gartner, Gema Priego, Carlo Saija, Maria Deprez, Alexia Egloff Collado, Jana Hutter, Lisa Story, Christina Malamateniou, Kawal Rhode, Jo Hajnal and Mary A. Rutherford
    Citation: BMC Medical Imaging 2024 24:52

Submission Guidelines

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This Collection welcomes submission of original Research Articles. Should you wish to submit a different article type, please read our submission guidelines to confirm that type is accepted by the journal. Articles for this Collection should be submitted via our submission system, Snapp. During the submission process you will be asked whether you are submitting to a Collection, please select "Medical imaging for fetal diseases" from the dropdown menu.

Articles will undergo the journal’s standard peer-review process and are subject to all of the journal’s standard policies. Articles will be added to the Collection as they are published.

The Editors have no competing interests with the submissions which they handle through the peer review process. The peer review of any submissions for which the Editors have competing interests is handled by another Editorial Board Member who has no competing interests.