Robotic ICSI (Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection)

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 58, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 2102-2108

  Lu, Zhe ^a   Zhang, Xuping ^a   Leung, Clement ^a   Esfandiari, Navid ^b   Casper, Robert F ^b   Sun, Yu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Automation; cell manipulation; computer vision; ICSI; robotics; sperm manipulation

Indexed keywords

CELL HOLDING DEVICE; CELL MANIPULATION; CLINICAL PROCEDURE; COMPUTER MOUSE; COMPUTER VISION ALGORITHMS; EGG CELLS; HUMAN OPERATOR; ICSI; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTIONS; PICOLITER VOLUMES; REPRODUCIBILITIES; ROBOTIC CELL; ROBOTIC SYSTEMS; SPERM MANIPULATION; SURVIVAL RATE; TECHNICAL ASPECTS; VISUAL TRACKING;

COMPUTER CONTROL SYSTEMS; COMPUTER VISION; MAMMALS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; ROBOTS;

ROBOTICS;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL TRANSFER; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER SYSTEM; EYE TRACKING; HAMSTER; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZED CELL; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; MOTION; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; ROBOTICS; SPERM; SPERM RETRIEVAL; SPERMATOZOON MIGRATION; VOLUMETRY;

ANIMALS; AUTOMATION, LABORATORY; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL TRACKING; CRICETINAE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; MALE; MICROINJECTIONS; OOCYTES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROBOTICS; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; SPERMATOZOA; THERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 79959549333     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2011.2146781     Document Type: Article

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