Artificial intelligence helped a couple conceive a child

Artificial intelligence helped an American couple conceive a child after 18 years of unsuccessful attempts and 15 IVFs.

The couple’s infertility was caused by azoospermia, a pathological condition in which there are practically no sperm in the man’s sperm. It is considered one of the most difficult forms of treatment.

The couple was able to get pregnant thanks to artificial intelligence, which was created to detect sperm in the ejaculate. Scientists have been developing this method for 5 years. The project is called STAR – Sperm Track and Recovery.

This project uses artificial intelligence and a microfluidic chip: in an hour it takes more than 8 million microscopic pictures, detecting even those sperm that are not visible during manual analysis. Once the sperm is detected, the system isolates it in a drop of nutrient medium, allowing embryologists to extract it without lasers or dyes that could affect the viability of the cell for IVF.

The system detected the required number of sperm in the man’s sperm for IVF. A few days later, it was confirmed that the woman was pregnant.

Recall that Microsoft’s artificial intelligence makes diagnoses 4 times more accurately than people.

To be continued…