Computer-assisted system with multiple feature fused support vector machine for sperm morphology diagnosis

Biomed Res Int. 2013:2013:687607. doi: 10.1155/2013/687607. Epub 2013 Sep 26.

Abstract

Sperm morphology is an important technique in identifying the health of sperms. In this paper we present a new system and novel approaches to classify different kinds of sperm images in order to assess their health. Our approach mainly relies on a one-dimensional feature which is extracted from the sperm's contour with gray level information. Our approach can handle rotation and scaling of the image. Moreover, it is fused with SVM classification to improve its accuracy. In our evaluation, our method has better performance than the existing approaches to sperm classification.

MeSH terms

  • Humans
  • Image Processing, Computer-Assisted / instrumentation*
  • Image Processing, Computer-Assisted / methods*
  • Male
  • Spermatozoa / cytology*
  • Support Vector Machine*