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This paper proposes DDH-Net, a fully automated computer-aided assessment method for infant hip ultrasound that follows the complete Graf workflow. First, YOLOv8n-pose is used to detect eight anatomical structures and two ilium orientation keypoints for standard plane determination. Regions of interest (ROIs) are then cropped according to the detection results, and U-Net is employed to perform fine segmentation of the ilium, labrum, and lower limb of the ilium. Finally, Graf reference lines are constructed from the segmentation results to enable automatic measurement of the \u03b1 and \u03b2 angles. The study included 1409 infants, comprising 2648 ultrasound images and 50 ultrasound videos. On an independent test set of 529 images, the accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity of standard plane detection were 96.8%, 94.5%, and 100.0%, respectively. The model automatically saved 187 candidate frames from the videos, of which 93.1% were rated by experts as having no or only minor clinically relevant discrepancies; 48 of the 50 videos (96.0%) contained at least one clinically acceptable candidate frame. Compared with full-image segmentation, ROI-based segmentation reduced processing time by 33.7%. In 307 standard plane images, the mean absolute errors (MAE) for the \u03b1 and \u03b2 angles were 1.61\u00b0 and 2.13\u00b0, respectively, with corresponding intraclass correlation coefficients (ICC) of 0.913 and 0.766. 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