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New software for the automatic and semiautomatic assessment of sperm morphology
T Rossi1, M Delfino, N Imbrogno
1Unit of Andrology, Department of Medical Pathophysiology, 2nd Faculty of Medicine, Sant'Andrea Hospital, La Sapienza University, Rome, Italy.
Aim:
An attempt was made to improve the standardization of sperm morphology assessment.
Methods:
A software for computerized automatic/semiautomatic sperm morphology assessment was developed and a comparative study between this computerized system and the subjective micrometric method was carried out.
Results:
The software has shown to be very reliable and reproducible. The subjective micrometric method significantly underestimated the percentage of atypical forms compared with the objective method.
Conclusion:
Until the development of new fully-automatic techniques, this system is certainly an effective first step in the objective, reproducible standardization of sperm morphology assessment.
