Artificial intelligence (AI) in medicine has gained a lot of momentum in the last decades and
has been applied to various fields of medicine. Advances in computer science, medical …

Infertility rates and the number of couples seeking fertility care have increased worldwide
over the past few decades. Over 2.5 million cycles of assisted reproductive technologies are …

Sperm morphology analysis (SMA) is a very important factor in the diagnosis process of
male infertility. This research proposes a novel deep learning algorithm for malformation …

Infertility affects one in six couples worldwide, and fertility continues to deteriorate globally,
partly owing to a decline in semen quality. Sperm analysis has a central role in diagnosing …

Despite the importance of sperm DNA to human reproduction, currently no method exists to
assess individual sperm DNA quality prior to clinical selection. Traditionally, skilled …

Since the emergent advent of miniaturized technologies in the last century, the past ninety
years have witnessed the extensive use of micro-and nano-manipulation methods, which …

Despite the increasing number of assisted reproductive technologies based treatments
being performed worldwide, there has been little improvement in fertilization and pregnancy …

Biomedical microelectrode implantation is a promising approach to achieve invasive brain-
machine interface with high bandwidth and good biocompatibility. However, it is difficult to …

The robotic manipulation of deformable linear objects is a classic and challenging topic.
Apart from synthetic objects, such as wires and cables, linear objects are also commonly …

Semen evaluation began in 1677 when Dutch scientist Anton van Leeuwenhoek and his
student Johan Ham viewed a human ejaculate under a compound microscope …