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In this study, we present an approach based on deep learning (DL) and dynamic programming (DP) to segment the bladder sac and measure the detrusor muscle thickness from transabdominal 2D B-mode ultrasound images. To assess the performance of our method, we compared the results of automated methods to the manually obtained reference bladder segmentations and wall thickness measurements of 80 images obtained from 11 volunteers. It takes less than a second to segment the bladder from a 2D B-mode image for the DL method. The average Dice index for the bladder segmentation is 0.93 \u00b1 0.04 mm, and the average root-mean-square-error and standard deviation for wall thickness measurement are 0.7 \u00b1 0.2 mm, which is comparable to the manual ground truth. The proposed fully automated and fast method could be a useful tool for segmentation and wall thickness measurement of the bladder from transabdominal B-mode images. 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