Sperm Cell Segmentation in Digital Micrographs based on Convolutional Neural Networks using U-Net Architecture

Human infertility is considered a serious disease of the reproductive system that affects more than 10% of couples worldwide, and more than 30% of reported cases are related to men. The crucial step in evaluating male infertility is a semen analysis, highly dependent on sperm morphology. However, this analysis is done at the laboratory manually and depends mainly on the doctor's experience. Beside...