The innovation speeds up the process of identifying healthy sperm in a sample by up to a thousand times
It is a new tool developed by researchers at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia, and the startup NeoGenix Biosciences can identify healthy sperm in seconds. The analysis is carried out using photographs taken of sperm samples in an automated way: to give you an idea, manual analysis, carried out by an embryologist, takes around six or seven hours.
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The name of the innovation is Sperm Search and, according to data obtained from the tests carried out, it worked 1000 times faster than an expert scientist would be able to do. It’s a Artificial intelligence (AI) system. created to help men who suffer from non-obstructive azoospermia, meaning they ejaculate without sperm.
What generally happens in these cases of male infertility is the removal of a small part of tissue from the testicles, in order to be able to analyze it in the laboratory. Therefore, from this sample, the embryologist searches manually healthy sperm which, once found, can be extracted and injected into an egg.
Scientific advances in human reproduction
The idea, the researchers say, is that this is an auxiliary tool and not a replacement for scientists. “It can highlight a potentially viable sperm before a human can even process what he or she is seeing,” said software developer Steven Vasilescu BBC.
To achieve this performance, Vasilescu and his colleagues working on SpermSearch trained the artificial intelligence by showing it thousands of sample images.
Again for the BBCDr Sarah Martins da Silva, of the reproductive medicine area of the University of Dundee, in the United Kingdom, underlined how critical the moment is for these cases of assisted reproduction: “If you have someone who has already collected eggs that need to be fertilized, there is only a small window of time in which they can be used. Speeding up this process would be extremely beneficial.”
The results of the new artificial intelligence were presented at the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology, an annual meeting which took place in June this year in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Source: Terra
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