Computer Assisted Sperm Profile Analysis and Recognition
AssigneeCellcura, Inc.
InventorsBent Nordbo, Jayant Mehta, Lesley Hutchins, Gerd Staume
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Abstract
The invention described herein relates to a device that will discriminate between normal sperm, and sperm that can look morphologically normal, but with >5% DNA fragmentation using an expert system that will allow the embryologist to select morphologically and genetically normal sperm.
Claims13
A method for identifying and selecting high motility, normal morphology and high DNA integrity spermatozoa comprising:
- (a) receiving a sperm sample;
- (b) determining one or more characteristics of each spermatozoon in the sperm sample;
- and (c) determining a sperm kinetic profile of the spermatozoon in the sperm sample;
- (d) and associating the sperm kinetic profile with an index set, wherein the index includes information indicative of an identity of the sperm kinetic profile.
A hardware platform device with an integrated tracking and machine vision system and a pattern matching algorithm that matches the input from the machine vision system with the pattern matching algorithm based on a set of pre-defined patterns in a reference database.
A hardware platform device comprising a handheld system, a microfluidic chip and software and pattern matching algorithms.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.