System and method for tissue viability screening

A system for determining the viability of an embryo, comprising:

• an imaging device;
• an excitation device configured to direct an excitation energy at an embryo;
• a controller communicatively connected to the imaging device and the excitation device, configured to drive the excitation device and collect images from the imaging device at an imaging frequency;
• a non-transitory computer-readable medium with instructions stored thereon, that when executed by a processor perform steps comprising:
• acquiring a set of images from the imaging device;
• performing a Fourier Transformation on the set of images to generate a set of phasor coordinates;
• computing a D-trajectory of the phasor coordinates;
• computing a set of values of additional parameters from the set of images and the phasor coordinates;
• comparing the set of values to a set of stored values related to embryos of known viability;
• and
• calculating a viability index factor of the embryo from the set of values and the set of stored values.