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Gold-standard for computer-assisted morphological sperm analysis.

Violeta Chang1, Alejandra Garcia2, Nancy Hitschfeld3

  • 1Department of Computer Science, University of Chile, Beauchef 851, 3rd Floor, Santiago, RM, Chile; Laboratory for Scientific Image Analysis, SCIAN-Lab, Centro de Espermiograma Digital Asistido por Internet (CEDAI SpA), Centro de Informatica Medica y Telemedicina (CIMT), Centro Nacional en Sistemas de Informacion en Salud (CENS), Biomedical Neuroscience Institute (BNI), Instituo de Ciencias Biomedicas (ICBM), Faculty of Medicine, University of Chile, Av. Independencia 1027, Independencia, RM, Chile.

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A new gold-standard dataset for human sperm head classification (SCIAN-MorphoSpermGS) was created due to limitations in existing public data. Current classification methods show high variability and poor accuracy, highlighting the need for specialized approaches.

Area of Science:

  • Reproductive biology
  • Medical image analysis
  • Computational pathology

Background:

  • Existing algorithms for human sperm head classification lack standardized, publicly available datasets for comparison.
  • This limits the evaluation and advancement of competing methods in semen analysis.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Introduce SCIAN-MorphoSpermGS, a gold-standard dataset for morphological sperm analysis.
  • Establish a baseline for evaluating and comparing sperm head classification techniques.

Main Methods:

  • Developed a gold-standard dataset (SCIAN-MorphoSpermGS) with expert-classified human sperm head images.
  • Compared four supervised learning methods and three shape-based descriptors using this dataset.
  • Utilized Fleiss' Kappa Coefficient and Fisher's exact test for statistical analysis.
Keywords:
Gold-standardInfertilityMorphological sperm analysisSperm classification base-lineSperm head classification

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