Virtus Health present further evidence to support AI technology in embryo selection

New data has been presented on the predictive value of the new artificial intelligence tool, Ivy. Ivy has, through analysis of time lapse images of IVF embryos, been shown to predict which embryos have the highest likelihood of leading to a viable pregnancy.

Aengus Tran, Chief Data Scientist at Harrison-AI and co-developer Dr Simon Cooke, Scientific Director at IVFAustralia, of Ivy, has presented the latest data on this system overnight at the American Society of Reproductive Medicine, in Denver. The significance of this work for the future of IVF has been recognised in the conference media release linked here.

Time-lapse videos of thousands of embryos during their development were used to ‘train’ the Ivy AI without the potential for interference from human bias or subjective assessment. The viability of Ivy, AI has been further validated since our preclinical data were originally announced in June 2018. 

“Artificial Intelligence is proving to be the most accurate tool for embryo selection due to recent data evaluated from the Ivy AI technology system” says Dr David Molloy, Medical Director of Queensland Fertility Group. “To date, Ivy has processed over 7.3 million images and with 93% accuracy correctly identified those embryos which will go on to have a fetal heartbeat - setting the benchmark for embryology.”Virtus Health is rolling the Ivy, AI capability out through our network of laboratories in Australia and Europe to enable rapid introduction to patient care in the new year.

Virtus Health is rolling the Ivy, AI capability out through our network of laboratories in Australia and Europe to enable rapid introduction to patient care in the new year.