Artificial intelligence in IVF: A need

Systems Biology in Reproductive Medicine

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 179-185

  Siristatidis, Charalampos ^a   Pouliakis, Abraham ^b   Chrelias, Charalampos ^a   Kassanos, Dimitrios ^a  

^a 3rd Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

artificial intelligence; classification models; in vitro fertilization; IVF; neural networks

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LEARNING VECTOR QUANTIZER; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REVIEW; STATISTICAL MODEL; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; TECHNIQUE;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FORECASTING; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); PREGNANCY; PROGNOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 80052116282     PISSN: 19396368     EISSN: 19396368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/19396368.2011.558607     Document Type: Review

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