Artificial intelligence used in male infertility scoring
Appeared in BioNews 1095
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been used to evaluate tissue samples in men who produce low levels of, or no, sperm.
Researchers at Toho University School of Medicine in Japan tested whether or not the Google Cloud Automated Machine Learning (AutoML) Vision platform could be used to carry out the traditional Johnson scoring method, in place of pathologists. The Johnson scoring method is used to classify the ability of a male patient to create viable sperm, based on examination of tissue samples taken from the testes, and is often the first stage in the treatment of azoospermia (a condition with no sperm in semen). The researchers findings have been published in Scientific Reports in Nature Communication.