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By MEIKE LEONARD, HEALTH REPORTER<\/a> <\/p>\n

Published: 19:38 EDT, 16 August 2025 | Updated: 19:38 EDT, 16 August 2025 <\/p>\n

Using artificial intelligence to analyse ultrasound scans could give parents the exact day their child will be born with 95 per cent accuracy, a study has claimed.<\/p>\n

Doctors currently estimate a foetus’s due date by adding 40 weeks to the first day of the mother’s last menstrual period.<\/p>\n

This rough calculation is known as Naegele’s rule and assumes the woman has a 28-day menstrual cycle and ovulates on day 14, which, for many, is not true.<\/p>\n

In the UK, just four per cent of babies are born on their due date.<\/p>\n

But a group of US researchers say using AI<\/a> to analyse ultrasounds could predict a child’s date of birth with 95 per cent accuracy.<\/p>\n

Using a software developed and trained using more than two million ultrasound images from women who gave birth at the University of Kentucky<\/a> from 2017 to 2020, the scientists measured how well AI could estimate whether a baby would be carried to term or not.<\/p>\n

The program, called Ultrasound AI, was able to predict whether a baby would be born early with 72 per cent accuracy, without relying on external information such as maternal history or clinical measurements.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It was 95 per cent accurate in predicting the due date of babies carried to full term, and 92 per cent accurate for all births combined.<\/p>\n

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Using artificial intelligence to analyse ultrasound scans could give parents the exact day their child will be born with 95 per cent accuracy, a study has claimed<\/p>\n

‘AI is reaching into the womb and helping us forecast the timing of birth, which we believe will lead to better prediction to help mothers across the world and provide a greater understanding of why the smallest babies are born too soon,’ said Dr John O’Brien, director of maternal-foetal medicine at the University of Kentucky.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘AI will eventually provide greater insights into how to target and prevent adverse pregnancy outcomes<\/p>\n

‘This work is an important first step in the start of a powerful advance in technology for the field of obstetrics.’<\/p>\n

Preterm birth is currently the leading cause of neonatal mortality in the world, and one in every 12 babies is born prematurely.<\/p>\n

It comes after the UK Government last year announced a plan to reduce the number of preterm births from 8 per cent to 6 per cent.<\/p>\n

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