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Machine learning assisted health viability assay for mouse embryos with artificial confocal microscopy (ACM)

Goswami, N.; Winston, N.; Choi, W.; Lai, N. Z. E.; Arcanjo, R. B.; Chen, X.; Sobh, N.; Nowak, R. A.; Anastasio, M. A.; Popescu, G.

2023-07-30 bioengineering
10.1101/2023.07.30.550591 bioRxiv
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The combination of a good quality embryo and proper maternal health factors promise higher chances of a successful in vitro fertilization (IVF) procedure leading to clinical pregnancy and live birth. Of these two factors, selection of a good embryo is a controllable aspect. The current gold standard in clinical practice is visual assessment of an embryo based on its morphological appearance by trained embryologists. More recently, machine learning has been incorporated into embryo selection "packages". Here, we report a machine-learning assisted embryo health assessment tool utilizing a quantitative phase imaging technique called artificial confocal microscopy (ACM). We present a label-free nucleus detection method with novel quantitative embryo health biomarkers. Two viability assessment models are presented for grading embryos into two classes: healthy/intermediate (H/I) or sick (S) class. The models achieve a weighted F1 score of 1.0 and 0.99 respectively on the in-distribution test set of 72 fixed embryos and a weighted F1 score of 0.9 and 0.95 respectively on the out-of-distribution test dataset of 19 time-instances from 8 live embryos.

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