The application discloses a computer-implemented method (100) of providing a model for estimating an anatomical body measurement value from at least one 2-D
ultrasound image including a contour of the anatomical body, the method comprising providing (110) a set of 3-D
ultrasound images of the anatomical body; and, for each of said 3-D images, determining (120) a
ground truth value of the anatomical body measurement; generating (130) a set of 2-D
ultrasound image planes each including a contour of the anatomical body, and for each of the 2-D
ultrasound image planes, extrapolating (140) a value of the anatomical body measurement from at least one of an outline contour measurement and a cross-sectional measurement of the anatomical body in the 2-D
ultrasound image plane; and generating (150) said model by training a
machine-learning
algorithm to generate an estimator function of the anatomical body measurement value from at least one of a determined outline contour measurement and a determined cross-sectional measurement of a contour of the anatomical body within a 2-D
ultrasound image using the obtained
ground truth values, extrapolated values and at least one of the outline contour measurements and the cross-sectional measurements as inputs of said
machine-learning
algorithm. A computer-implemented method of deploying such a model, a
computer program product, an ultrasound
image processing apparatus and an
ultrasound imaging system adapted to implement such methods are also disclosed.