Upgrading IVF With the Help of Artificial Intelligence

When she started in vitro fertilization, Katie Shepard, a medical device consultant from outside St. Paul, Minnesota, knew it could take more than one round to get pregnant. So, after the grueling regimen of hormone injections, ultrasound exams, egg retrieval and transfer of embryos back into her womb, she stayed optimistic -- until her second cycle. Of the 25 eggs harvested over the course of those two IVF treatments, only three developed into embryos. "It felt like someone took me out at the knees with a baseball bat," Shepard says. Worse, the embryos didn't take, nor did any from her third cycle.