Key Points
Embryologists make this choice by using their expertise to apply a set of widely accepted principles based on the appearance of the embryo..
This study is the first randomised controlled trial ever performed of a deep learning system in embryo selection..
The clinical pregnancy rate (the likelihood of a fetal heart being seen after transfer of the first embryo) was 46.5% when the deep learning system chose the embryo and 48.2% when the embryologist chose the embryo...
Despite the fact the deep learning system produced very similar results to those of human experts, our study did not quite clear the hurdle of proving non-inferiority...
We concluded from our study that there is no significant difference for the pregnancy rate between having an embryo chosen by a deep learning system or having the embryo chosen by an experienced embryologist...
