Computer-automated time-lapse analysis results correlate with embryo implantation and clinical pregnancy: A blinded, multi-centre study

Reproductive BioMedicine Online

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 729-736

  Vermilyea, Matthew D ^a   Tan, Lei ^b   Anthony, Joshua T ^a   Conaghan, Joe ^c   Ivani, Kristen ^d   Gvakharia, Marina ^e   Boostanfar, Robert ^f   Baker, Valerie L ^g   Suraj, Vaishali ^b   Chen, Alice A ^b   Mainigi, Monica ^a   Coutifaris, Christos ^a   Shen, Shehua ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b Far Western Anthropological Research Group   (United States)

^c Pacific Fertility Center   (United States)

^d Repro Sci Center of the Bay Area   (United States)

^e PALO ALTO MEDICAL FOUNDATION   (United States)

^f HRC Fertility   (United States)

^g Stanford Center for Human Sleep Research   (United States)

Author keywords

Eeva Test; embryo; implantation; in vitro fertilization; pregnancy; selection; time lapse

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER PREDICTION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NIDATION; OBSTETRIC PATIENT; OXYGEN CONCENTRATION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TIME LAPSE IMAGING; ANIMAL EMBRYO; CLINICAL TRIAL; CYTOLOGY; EVALUATION STUDY; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFERTILITY THERAPY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PROCEDURES; UNITED STATES;

EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME-LAPSE IMAGING; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84919600938     PISSN: 14726483     EISSN: 14726491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rbmo.2014.09.005     Document Type: Article

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