Patent ID: 11926809
Assignee: THE BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL
Field: Measurement (Instruments)
Classification: CPC C  G  H | IPC C  G  H

Claim 7:
8. A system comprising:
a camera that produces an image of a semen sample;
an image processor that segments the image to provide a plurality of image tiles, the image processor locating individual sperm within a representation of the image generated via an template matching process in which a cross-correlation between a template representing at least a portion of a sperm and each of a plurality of locations on the image is computed and locations having a cross-correlation output above a threshold value are selected and generating a plurality of tiles from the image according to the locations of the individual sperm; and
a convolutional neural network that evaluates a subset of the plurality of image tiles and assigns to each of the image tiles to one of a plurality of output classes respective likelihoods that sperm within the image tile belongs to each of a set of at least one of a plurality of output classes representing the morphology of sperm within the image tile.