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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Costa, Matilde
• Strumane, Anoek
• Raes, Annelies
• Van Soom, Ann
• Babin, Danilo
• Aelterman, Jan

Titel

Deep-Learning Based Quantification of Bovine Oocyte Quality From Microscopy Images

Ist Teil von

• 2023 45th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC), 2023, Vol.2023, p.1-4

Ort / Verlag

United States: IEEE

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The success rate of bovine in vitro embryo reproduction is low and highly dependent on the oocyte quality. The selection of the oocyte to be fertilized is done by the embryologists' visual examination of oocytes. It is time-consuming, subjective, and inconsistent between specialists in the area. In this paper, a semi-automatic solution is proposed to score the quality of an immature oocyte. It consists of a deep learning model to classify oocyte competence. The model was trained and tested with real data, composed of images of immature oocytes and their label of whether they developed into blastocysts after fertilization. To the best of our knowledge, automated bovine oocyte classification was not attempted before, but experimental results show that our proposed solution is more robust and objective than specialists' visual assessment and comparable with other works on human oocytes.Clinical relevance- This establishes a semi-automatic real-time method to score bovine immature oocytes, based on stereo-microscopy images. Our method will significantly reduce the time of in vitro embryo production and its success.