A Azoospermia This is one of the problems Male infertility It is more difficult to solve, because it mainly consists in the absence of sperm in the ejaculate. If there is not a single sperm, you cannot fulfill any of the classical methods of playback. It would be necessary to choose a donor sperm or extract a biopsy from the patient’s testicles in order to find spermatozoa in it. They can be there, but for some reason they are not released in ejaculation. The first is an option that many couples discard, and the second is enough Invasive and annoyingThis is why StarHe AI algorithm This promises to find sperm where, it seems, there is no, it is represented as the most promising tool.
He recently introduced a team of scientists from Colombian University after 5 years of research. This is very interesting, since the AI algorithm is used It was originally developed to find different starsThe field in this case does not seek stars, but sperm is so hidden that not even the most trained human eye could not find them using a microscope.
Thanks to the star, a couple who had 18 years old in search of a child The cause of infertility caused by Azoospermia reached pregnancy. The child has not yet been born, but pregnancy, now 5 months, leaves without problems. Thank you all.
How common is Azoospermia?
It is calculated that from 1 % to 2 % of the male population He has azoospermia, and this, in turn, is the cause 10 % of cases of infertility in menThis is why this algorithm of AI is so promising. There are many people who could benefit from Star.
How does Star work in the treatment of infertility?
Star, thus baptized by the abbreviation in English “Monitoring and restoration of sperm”consists of Microscope connected to a chamber with high speed Able to capture More than 8 million images with high resolution in just an hour. As soon as this is done, the algorithm specialized in the image check scans the sample in search of sperm.
Initially, this algorithm made images of a deep sky and was looking for small clear stars, it is difficult to detect with other methods. In this case, he does exactly the same, but heaven is sperm and lost sperm. The only thing that has changed is training. The location of sperm in the image was trained.
As explained by those who are responsible for the star A CtvnewsBefore using in clinical practice his algorithm and tried it in a small experiment. They took the patient’s samples with a diagnosis of azoospermia, and handed it to a series of doctors specializing in reproduction and familiar with sperm analysis. Two days later, No one was able to find a single spermThe field then they spent a sample so that the old who managed to find 44 Cum for only 1 hour.
A real case
The success that raised this algorithm of AI was the pregnancy of a woman who I tried to get pregnant for 18 years Next to his partner with Azoospermia. It was decided that they could be a good couple to check the AI algorithm, and the patient was asked for a sample of sperm.
When the star scanned him He managed to find 3 sperm. This was enough to carry out the procedure for auxiliary reproduction. Although in the news on this topic it is indicated that he passed the procedure Fertilization in vitro (eco)with such a small amount of sperm, it is more likely that ICSI procedure was carried outIn which sperm is introduced directly into the egg to facilitate fertilization.
Do it, the woman is quickly pregnant. The best, as indicated by Colombian University, is that Star Scan is not an expensive procedure. Near 3000 eurosthat is not a huge amount of money, given the usual prices Auxiliary reproductionThe field at the moment is a diaper technique, but we have already seen that it works, and it would not be rare to see that this is much more common not too much time.
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