Medical Xpress July 31, 2024
According to a World Health Organization (WHO) study (2017), about half of all infertility is due to men. Semen analysis is considered essential for diagnosis of male infertility, but is not readily available at medical institutions other than those specializing in infertility treatment, and there is a high threshold for receiving it.
In a new study, a group led by Associate Professor Hideyuki Kobayashi of the Department of Urology, Toho University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan has developed an AI model that can predict the risk of male infertility without the need for semen analysis by only measuring hormone levels in a blood test. AI creation software that requires no programming was used for the model, and the study was...