Title
Sperm cell segmentation in digital micrographs based on convolutional neural networks using U-net architecture
Date Issued
01 June 2021
Access level
open access
Resource Type
conference paper
Publisher(s)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Abstract
Human infertility is considered a serious disease of the reproductive system that affects more than 10% of couples worldwide, and more than 30% of reported cases are related to men. The crucial step in evaluating male infertility is a semen analysis, highly dependent on sperm morphology. However, this analysis is done at the laboratory manually and depends mainly on the doctor's experience. Besides, it is laborious, and there is also a high degree of interlaboratory variability in the results. This article proposes applying a specialized convolutional neural network architecture (U-Net), which focuses on the segmentation of sperm cells in micrographs to overcome these problems. The results showed high scores for the model segmentation metrics such as precision (93%), IoU score (88%), and DICE score of 94%. Moreover, we can conclude that U-net architecture turned out to be a good option to carry out the segmentation of sperm cells.
Start page
91
End page
96
Volume
2021-June
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Obstetricia, Ginecología Biotecnología relacionada con la salud
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85110914186
Source
IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems
Resource of which it is part
IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems
ISSN of the container
10637125
ISBN of the container
9781665441216
Conference
34th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems, CBMS 2021
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