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Area of Science:

  • Reproductive Medicine
  • Computer Vision
  • Medical Diagnostics

Background:

  • Infertility is a significant medical issue, with male factors including sperm morphology, motility, and density.
  • Traditional semen analysis relies on subjective laboratory observations, increasing the potential for errors.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a computer-aided sperm count estimation approach to minimize subjectivity in semen analysis.
  • To utilize object detection techniques for accurate assessment of sperm motility and density.

Main Methods:

  • A novel computer-aided approach employing object detection for sperm motility analysis was proposed.
  • A labeled dataset was created for training and validating the sperm detection network.
  • The Visem dataset from the Association for Computing Machinery was utilized for testing.

Main Results:

  • The proposed network demonstrated the capability to detect sperm in images.
  • The system achieved a mean Average Precision (mAP) of 72.15% in its best non-super-tuned configuration.

Conclusions:

  • Computer-aided semen analysis offers a promising solution to enhance the objectivity and accuracy of infertility diagnostics.
  • Object detection techniques can effectively automate the assessment of sperm parameters, reducing reliance on manual interpretation.