The World Journal of Men's Health (Jan 2024)
Artificial Intelligence in Andrology: From Semen Analysis to Image Diagnostics
- Ramy Abou Ghayda,
- Rossella Cannarella,
- Aldo E. Calogero,
- Rupin Shah,
- Amarnath Rambhatla,
- Wael Zohdy,
- Parviz Kavoussi,
- Tomer Avidor-Reiss,
- Florence Boitrelle,
- Taymour Mostafa,
- Ramadan Saleh,
- Tuncay Toprak,
- Ponco Birowo,
- Gianmaria Salvio,
- Gokhan Calik,
- Shinnosuke Kuroda,
- Raneen Sawaid Kaiyal,
- Imad Ziouziou,
- Andrea Crafa,
- Nguyen Ho Vinh Phuoc,
- Giorgio I. Russo,
- Damayanthi Durairajanayagam,
- Manaf Al-Hashimi,
- Taha Abo-Almagd Abdel-Meguid Hamoda,
- Germar-Michael Pinggera,
- Ricky Adriansjah,
- Israel Maldonado Rosas,
- Mohamed Arafa,
- Eric Chung,
- Widi Atmoko,
- Lucia Rocco,
- Haocheng Lin,
- Eric Huyghe,
- Priyank Kothari,
- Jesus Fernando Solorzano Vazquez,
- Fotios Dimitriadis,
- Nicolas Garrido,
- Sheryl Homa,
- Marco Falcone,
- Marjan Sabbaghian,
- Hussein Kandil,
- Edmund Ko,
- Marlon Martinez,
- Quang Nguyen,
- Ahmed M. Harraz,
- Ege Can Serefoglu,
- Vilvapathy Senguttuvan Karthikeyan,
- Dung Mai Ba Tien,
- Sunil Jindal,
- Sava Micic,
- Marina Bellavia,
- Hamed Alali,
- Nazim Gherabi,
- Sheena Lewis,
- Hyun Jun Park,
- Mara Simopoulou,
- Hassan Sallam,
- Liliana Ramirez,
- Giovanni Colpi,
- Ashok Agarwal
Affiliations
- Ramy Abou Ghayda
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- Urology Institute, University Hospitals, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA
- Rossella Cannarella
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- Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Catania, Catania, Italy
- Aldo E. Calogero
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- Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Catania, Catania, Italy
- Rupin Shah
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- Department of Urology, Lilavati Hospital and Research Centre, Mumbai, India
- Amarnath Rambhatla
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- Department of Urology, Henry Ford Health System, Vattikuti Urology Institute, Detroit, MI, USA
- Wael Zohdy
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- Andrology and STDs, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt
- Parviz Kavoussi
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- Department of Urology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
- Tomer Avidor-Reiss
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Toledo, Toledo
- Florence Boitrelle
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- Reproductive Biology, Fertility Preservation, Andrology, CECOS, Poissy Hospital, Poissy
- Taymour Mostafa
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- Andrology, Sexology & STIs Department, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo
- Ramadan Saleh
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- Department of Dermatology, Venereology and Andrology, Faculty of Medicine, Sohag University, Sohag, Egypt
- Tuncay Toprak
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- Department of Urology, Fatih Sultan Mehmet Training and Research Hospital, University of Health Sciences, Istanbul, Turkey
- Ponco Birowo
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- Department of Urology, Dr. Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia
- Gianmaria Salvio
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- Department of Endocrinology, Polytechnic University of Marche, Ancona, Italy
- Gokhan Calik
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- Department of Urology, Istanbul Medipol University, Istanbul, Turkey
- Shinnosuke Kuroda
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- Glickman Urological & Kidney Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH
- Raneen Sawaid Kaiyal
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- Glickman Urological & Kidney Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH
- Imad Ziouziou
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- Department of Urology, College of Medicine and Pharmacy, Ibn Zohr University, Agadir, Morocco
- Andrea Crafa
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- Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Catania, Catania, Italy
- Nguyen Ho Vinh Phuoc
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- Department of Andrology, Binh Dan Hospital, Ho Chi Minh City
- Giorgio I. Russo
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- Urology Section, University of Catania, Catania, Italy
- Damayanthi Durairajanayagam
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- Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Sungai Buloh Campus, Selangor, Malaysia
- Manaf Al-Hashimi
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- Department of Urology, Burjeel Hospital, Abu Dhabi
- Taha Abo-Almagd Abdel-Meguid Hamoda
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- Department of Urology, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
- Germar-Michael Pinggera
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- Department of Urology, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria
- Ricky Adriansjah
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- Department of Urology, Hasan Sadikin General Hospital, Universitas Padjadjaran, Banding, Indonesia
- Israel Maldonado Rosas
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- IVF Laboratory, CITMER Reproductive Medicine, Mexico City, Mexico
- Mohamed Arafa
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- Department of Urology, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha
- Eric Chung
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- Department of Urology, Princess Alexandra Hospital, University of Queensland, Brisbane QLD, Australia
- Widi Atmoko
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- Department of Urology, Dr. Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia
- Lucia Rocco
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- Department of Environmental, Biological and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technologies, University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Caserta, Italy
- Haocheng Lin
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- Department of Urology, Peking University Third Hospital, Peking University, Beijing, China
- Eric Huyghe
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- Department of Urology and Andrology, University Hospital of Toulouse, Toulouse, France
- Priyank Kothari
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- Department of Urology, B.Y.L. Nair Charitable Hospital, Topiwala National Medical College, Mumbai, India
- Jesus Fernando Solorzano Vazquez
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- IVF Laboratory, CITMER Reproductive Medicine, Mexico City, Mexico
- Fotios Dimitriadis
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- Department of Urology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
- Nicolas Garrido
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- IVIRMA Global Research Alliance, IVI Foundation, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria La Fe (IIS La Fe), Valencia, Spain
- Sheryl Homa
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- Department of Biosciences, University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom
- Marco Falcone
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- Department of Urology, Molinette Hospital, A.O.U. Città della Salute e della Scienza, University of Turin, Torino, Italy
- Marjan Sabbaghian
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- Department of Andrology, Reproductive Biomedicine Research Center, Royan Institute for Reproductive Biomedicine, ACECR, Tehran, Iran
- Hussein Kandil
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- Fakih IVF Fertility Center, Abu Dhabi, UAE
- Edmund Ko
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- Department of Urology, Loma Linda University Health, Loma Linda, CA, USA
- Marlon Martinez
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- Section of Urology, Department of Surgery, University of Santo Tomas Hospital, Manila, Philippines
- Quang Nguyen
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- Section of Urology, Department of Surgery, University of Santo Tomas Hospital, Manila, Philippines
- Ahmed M. Harraz
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- Urology and Nephrology Center, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt
- Ege Can Serefoglu
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- Department of Urology, Biruni University School of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey
- Vilvapathy Senguttuvan Karthikeyan
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- Andrology Unit, Department of Urology, Apollo Hospitals, Chennai
- Dung Mai Ba Tien
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- Department of Andrology, Binh Dan Hospital, Ho Chi Minh City
- Sunil Jindal
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- Department of Andrology and Reproductive Medicine, Jindal Hospital, Meerut, India
- Sava Micic
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- Department of Andrology, Uromedica Polyclinic, Belgrade, Serbia
- Marina Bellavia
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- Andrology and IVF Center, Next Fertility Procrea, Lugano, Switzerland
- Hamed Alali
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- King Fahad Specialist Hospital, Dammam, Saudi Arabia
- Nazim Gherabi
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- Andrology Committee of the Algerian Association of Urology, Algiers, Algeria
- Sheena Lewis
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- Examen Lab Ltd., Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
- Hyun Jun Park
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- Department of Urology, Pusan National University School of Medicine, Busan
- Mara Simopoulou
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- Department of Experimental Physiology, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
- Hassan Sallam
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- Alexandria University Faculty of Medicine, Alexandria, Egypt
- Liliana Ramirez
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- IVF Laboratory, CITMER Reproductive Medicine, Mexico City, Mexico
- Giovanni Colpi
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- Andrology and IVF Center, Next Fertility Procrea, Lugano, Switzerland
- Ashok Agarwal
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- Global Andrology Forum, Moreland Hills, OH
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.5534/wjmh.230050
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 42,
no. 1
pp. 39 – 61
Abstract
Artificial intelligence (AI) in medicine has gained a lot of momentum in the last decades and has been applied to various fields of medicine. Advances in computer science, medical informatics, robotics, and the need for personalized medicine have facilitated the role of AI in modern healthcare. Similarly, as in other fields, AI applications, such as machine learning, artificial neural networks, and deep learning, have shown great potential in andrology and reproductive medicine. AI-based tools are poised to become valuable assets with abilities to support and aid in diagnosing and treating male infertility, and in improving the accuracy of patient care. These automated, AI-based predictions may offer consistency and efficiency in terms of time and cost in infertility research and clinical management. In andrology and reproductive medicine, AI has been used for objective sperm, oocyte, and embryo selection, prediction of surgical outcomes, cost-effective assessment, development of robotic surgery, and clinical decision-making systems. In the future, better integration and implementation of AI into medicine will undoubtedly lead to pioneering evidence-based breakthroughs and the reshaping of andrology and reproductive medicine.
Keywords
- andrology
- artificial intelligence
- deep learning
- diagnostic imaging
- machine learning
- neural networks; computer
