A method for semi-automatic grading of human blastocyst microscope images

Human Reproduction

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2641-2648

  Filho, E Santos ^a   Noble, J A ^a   Poli, M ^b,d   Griffiths, T ^b   Emerson, G ^c   Wells, D ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b Oxford Business Park North   (United Kingdom)

^c ROTUNDA HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

computerized image analysis; embryo grading; image segmentation; IVF

Indexed keywords

ANALYZER; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CLASSIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECTODERM; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INNER CELL MASS; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE CLASSIFIER; TROPHECTODERM; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

EID: 84864914397     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: 14602350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/des219     Document Type: Article

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