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Machine Learning-Based Analysis of Sperm Videos and Participant Data for Male Fertility Prediction [PDF]

arXiv, 2019
Methods for automatic analysis of clinical data are usually targeted towards a specific modality and do not make use of all relevant data available. In the field of male human reproduction, clinical and biological data are not used to its fullest potential.
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In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) Cumulative Pregnancy Rate Prediction from Basic Patient Characteristics [PDF]

arXiv, 2019
Tens of millions of women suffer from infertility worldwide each year. In vitro fertilization (IVF) is the best choice for many such patients. However, IVF is expensive, time-consuming, and both physically and emotionally demanding. The first question that a patient usually asks before the IVF is how likely she will conceive, given her basic medical ...
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SHMC-Net: A Mask-guided Feature Fusion Network for Sperm Head Morphology Classification [PDF]

arXiv
Male infertility accounts for about one-third of global infertility cases. Manual assessment of sperm abnormalities through head morphology analysis encounters issues of observer variability and diagnostic discrepancies among experts. Its alternative, Computer-Assisted Semen Analysis (CASA), suffers from low-quality sperm images, small datasets, and ...
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Computing the minimal crew for a multi-generational space travel towards Proxima Centauri b [PDF]

arXiv, 2018
The survival of a genetically healthy multi-generational crew is of a prime concern when dealing with space travel. It has been shown that determining a realistic population size is tricky as many parameters (such as infertility, inbreeding, sudden deaths, accidents or random events) come into play.
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Mathematical Models for Predicting and Mitigating the Spread of Chlamydia Sexually Transmitted Infection [PDF]

arXiv, 2018
Chlamydia trachomatis (Ct) is the most common bacterial sexually transmitted infection (STI) in the United States and is major cause of infertility, pelvic inflammatory disease, and ectopic pregnancy among women. Despite decades of screening women for Ct, rates continue to increase among them in high prevalent areas such as New Orleans.
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