Using artificial intelligence to avoid human error in identifying embryos: a retrospective cohort study.

Journal: Journal of assisted reproduction and genetics
Published Date:

Abstract

PURPOSE: To determine whether convolutional neural networks (CNN) can be used to accurately ascertain the patient identity (ID) of cleavage and blastocyst stage embryos based on image data alone.

Authors

  • Karissa C Hammer
    Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 55 Fruit Street, Suite 10A, Boston, MA, 02114, USA. karissa.c.hammer@gmail.com.
  • Victoria S Jiang
    Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 55 Fruit Street, Suite 10A, Boston, MA, 02114, USA. vjiang2@mgh.harvard.edu.
  • Manoj Kumar Kanakasabapathy
    Division of Engineering in Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. hshafiee@bwh.harvard.edu.
  • Prudhvi Thirumalaraju
    Division of Engineering in Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. hshafiee@bwh.harvard.edu.
  • Hemanth Kandula
    Division of Engineering in Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. hshafiee@bwh.harvard.edu.
  • Irene Dimitriadis
    Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
  • Irene Souter
    Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
  • Charles L Bormann
    Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
  • Hadi Shafiee
    Division of Engineering in Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. hshafiee@bwh.harvard.edu and Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.