Artificial intelligence in Clinical Embryology and Pregnancy

In the last few years, the work done in the lab to give a baby has improved a lot. There has been a lot of improvement in it, but a very big magic has happened and is going to happen, that is Artificial Intelligence. You must have heard the name of ChatGPT, you must have heard that Artificial Intelligence is being used in today's photographs, pictures, everything. But Artificial Intelligence is being used beautifully to give you a baby as well. Today AI can give birth to a child. AI can also make a person pregnant. There are many couples all over the world, many couples who are waiting to become parents. For years, IVF, surrogacy, test tube baby, despite having so much technology, those parents are still yearning to see their children's faces, because they are not able to become parents. If you are one of them, then you will be surprised to know that now with the help of AI, your dream can come true.

Even after getting many kinds of treatments for 19 years, a couple was not able to become parents. This couple got all kinds of treatments, all kinds of tests done to become parents. Every time they were disappointed. In the wish of their child, they adopted IVF technology 15 times, but failed every time. For 19 years, they hoped to get a child, visited fertility centres all over the world, but it did not work. When the tests were done, it was found that the husband had azoospermia. This is a rare condition in men, in which there is no sperm in the male, which means that they cannot give birth to a child. There can be two reasons for azoospermia:

·       First, what is called obstructive azoospermia, which means obstruction. When there is a blockage in the way the sperm comes out of the penis, then the child is not born.

·       The second is non-obstructive azoospermia, which means not having a sperm. When the body itself does not make sperm, then the child cannot be born without sperm. But this couple did not give up for 19 years.

Without giving up, this couple reached the best fertility centre in Bangalore - Dr. Kamini Rao Hospitals, and adopted a completely new method. With the help of AI, this couple is going to become parents soon. The doctors of Dr. Kamini Rao Hospitals helped the couple with a new AI technology called STAR, which made the woman pregnant even after 19 years. This technique is called STAR method, which means Sperm Tracking and Recovery. In this, with the help of AI, such sperm is found that has never been found before. AI technology did something that human eyes could not do.

Through STAR technology, researchers made a machine. In this machine, 80 lakh photographs could be clicked in an hour. In these photos, AI works to find the smallest hidden sperm. And then, without harming a special machine, it is separated in a safe way. Researchers of the fertility centre took a sample of a man from the artificial intelligence system, examined it, and the amazing thing was that they found 3 hidden sperms. With the help of AI technology, doctors found 3 healthy sperms in a man's uterus one by one. These sperms were used to fertilize the woman's womb through IVF. In simple terms, one of these sperms was put in the woman's egg. And in this, after a long wait of 19 years, the woman became pregnant. And now, STAR, which is the STAR method, which is an AI technology, due to which the woman who is going to be pregnant, has become the first woman in the world. This news is raising hope among people.

It is increasing the hope of couples. And now people are very hopeful that no matter what, medical science has advanced so much, artificial intelligence has advanced so much, that now AI will fulfil your desire to have your own children.

There's been plenty of excitement and concern about how the coming revolution in artificial intelligence could upend parts of our lives. But one giant benefit could be changes in medical care. AI has been called medicine's biggest moment since antibiotics, with the potential for diagnosing rare illnesses, developing new treatment options, and exciting new drug discoveries. And it is possible that in the next 5 years, the way we work in the lab will change. So, in this article we will discuss 5 points that will do magic in this world in the next 5 years in Artificial Intelligence.

·       The first thing that Artificial Intelligence will help in embryo selection. When your embryos are made, which one is your best embryo to stick to your uterus, to give pregnancy. But you think that if the data and photos of 200,000 embryos are with Artificial Intelligence, and through that it is known which of them are pregnant, and from that data, from that picture, the computer selects which embryo will give pregnancy. So, will there be magic? This embryo selection, means which is your best child in the lab, its selection will be done through Artificial Intelligence. We’ve already seen this previously in the case above.

·       The next thing is predicting IVF outcomes. Now every person asks us what is the chance of having a baby. So, we say let's see the embryo and how your uterus will accept it, it will be dependent on that. But you think that if there is an algorithm of Artificial Intelligence, in which your age, your hormonal profile, your diseases, what are your problems of sperm and egg, and how your embryo is forming, all those things should be fed together. And on the outcome of thousands and lakhs of patients, it should tell you what are your chances of having a baby.

·       The third thing is data analysis. You must have heard a lot that data analysis is a very important thing. So, in IVF, data analysis is also very important for us. Because this data analysis ultimately tells us what will give pregnancy and what will not give pregnancy.

·       The fourth thing is cryopreservation technique. We also freeze your embryos. That freezing is called cryopreservation. Now the cryopreservation technique that we use, the most modern technique of vitrification, in that most modern technique, if artificial intelligence comes, which is working on it, then what will happen is that it will analyze the frozen embryos, how good they are and what reports they give. And on that basis, how your embryo has to be preserved, a system will be prepared for that.

·       The final thing is genetic studies. Now if such a big data is of the world, and we put our own data of a patient in it, then after putting the genetic data, we will know what are the chances of their pregnancy. So, this genetic screening and all these things are very important for our embryology lab.

AI is very interesting and so is the field of reproductive medicine and clinical embryology. While AI in ART is already making its space, AI in embryology lab is still in its initial stages and making a way forward. Now, if you are interested to learn more about this interesting concept, we recommend joining a fulltime or hybrid Fellowship in Embryology at Medline Academics. This institution is known for its hybrid format of education, giving their mentees the option to continue their education while running their own practice or working in ART labs. Further, the institute is currently dedicated to offering reproductive medicine program and allied courses, but soon planning to set up its base in Radiology Courses. So far, Medline Academics has trained over 600+ doctors and is conducting its second convocation ceremony on the 06^th of December in Bangalore in presence of Dr. Balakrishna P. Shetty – a renowned personality in the field of Radiology. The current batch admissions for 2025 – 2026 are going on and if you are interested, you can enquire about the embryology course eligibility and secure you booking by visiting the website.