IVF Lab Director Dr. Barash reports that a trial study found clinical pregnancy rates were slightly higher in the AI selections
In a double-blind, retrospective, randomized comparative reader study, the clinical pregnancy rate reached 61.0% for embryos selected by a group of five embryologists and reached 62.1% for embryos selected by artificial intelligence (AI), reports RSC of the SF Bay Area IVF Lab Director Dr. Oleksii Barash.
He also notes that in the 65% of cases when all five embryologists agreed on embryo selection for transfer, the machine learning model selected the same choice 99% of the time. When AI chose a different embryo than the embryologists, researchers analyzed the clinical pregnancy rates of each group.
“In four out of five pairs, actually AI did a better job,” Dr. Barash shares.