Development of a deep-learning model for detecting positive tubules during sperm recovery for nonobstructive azoospermia.

Journal: Reproduction (Cambridge, England)
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Abstract

To enhance surgical testicular sperm retrieval outcome for men with nonobstructive azoospermia, a deep-learning model was developed to identify positive seminiferous tubules by labeling 110 images with sperm-containing tubules sampled during microdissection testicular sperm extraction as training and validation data. After training, the model achieved an average precision of 0.60.

Authors

  • Teppei Takeshima
    Department of Urology and Renal Transplantation, Yokohama City University Medical Center.
  • Jurii Karibe
    Department of Urology and Renal Transplantation, Yokohama City University Medical Center.
  • Shinnosuke Kuroda
    Department of Urology, Reproduction Center, Yokohama City University Medical Center, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan.
  • Yasushi Yumura
    Department of Urology, Reproduction Center, Yokohama City University Medical Center.