Computer-assisted embryo selection: A benefit in the evaluation of embryo quality?

Reproductive BioMedicine Online

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 347-354

  Paternot, Goedele ^a   Debrock, Sophie ^a   D'Hooghe, Thomas ^a   Spiessens, Carl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

computer assisted scoring system; embryo selection; implantation; live birth rate; single embryo transfer

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLASTOMERE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER PREDICTION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; EMBRYOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LIVE BIRTH; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NIDATION; SCORING SYSTEM; ZYGOTE;

ADULT; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIVE BIRTH; LOGISTIC MODELS; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SINGLE EMBRYO TRANSFER;

EID: 80052407255     PISSN: 14726483     EISSN: 14726491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rbmo.2011.05.007     Document Type: Article

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