Virtus Health says artificial intelligence has potential to make IVF babies

Embryologists manually assess each embryo based on its physical appearance at a limited number of critical development check points, using a standard grading system together with digital time-lapse imagery to select the best embryo to transfer to the woman. Ivy AI observes the embryo's development while the embryo remains completely undisturbed in the time-lapse incubator. Ivy looks at the first five days of the embryo's life, and does this for 2000 embryos. Ivy takes millions of pieces of information and correlates this data, which then will tell the embryologist which embryo will have a successful fetal heart and accelerate the chance of a healthy baby. Pre-clinical validation of the technology has been conducted in Virtus Health clinics using the data obtained from more than 2600 embryos from NSW, the ACT and Queensland laboratories.