Time-lapse microscopy and image analysis in basic and clinical embryo development research

Reproductive BioMedicine Online

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 120-129

  Wong, C ^a   Chen, A A ^a   Behr, B ^b   Shen, S ^a  

^a Auxogyn Inc   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

cell dynamics; image analysis; predictive parameters; preimplantation embryo development; time lapse microscopy

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EMBRYO; BLASTOCYST; BLASTOMA; CELL DIVISION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CULTURE MEDIUM; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; DNA DAMAGE; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO GROWTH; EMBRYO POLARITY; EMBRYO RESEARCH; EMBRYOTOXICITY; EPIGENETICS; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INCUBATOR; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MICROSCOPY; MITOSIS; MOUSE EMBRYO; MULTIPLE OVULATION AND EMBRYO TRANSFER; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR REPROGRAMMING; PH; PHOTOTOXICITY; PREGNANCY RATE; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TEMPERATURE; TIME LAPSE MICROSCOPY;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; EMBRYO CULTURE TECHNIQUES; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; TIME-LAPSE IMAGING; TRANSLATIONAL MEDICAL RESEARCH;

EID: 84873404961     PISSN: 14726483     EISSN: 14726491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rbmo.2012.11.003     Document Type: Review

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