Israeli Startup Uses AI to Boost IVF Effectiveness by Selecting Viable Eggs

Using large amounts of biological data, the platform can detect milestones and phases of a developing embryo that indicate viability.

By Shula Rosen

Although many industrialized nations are experiencing a steep decline in birth rates, Israel has held steady. So it’s not surprising that Israel should be taking the lead in technology to enhance fertility, particularly IVF procedures.

In 2018, Israel had the second-highest number of IVF procedures per capita after Japan.

In-vitro fertilization, which involves the implantation of a fertilized embryo into a womb, has been around since 1978, but Israeli technology is ushering in a new era of IVF.

The success of the procedure depends on selecting fertilized eggs that are most likely to result in a viable fetus. In the past, this has relied on chance and human judgement to determine which fertilized eggs to implant.

Tel Aviv-based AVIF combines Artificial Intelligence (AI) and human judgment to decide which fertilized eggs should be implanted more accurately.

The startup was co-founded by embryologist Daniella Gilboa and reproductive medicine expert Prof. Daniel Seidman.

“He brings the voice of the physician as well as the voice of the patient, and I bring the voice of the embryologist,” Gilboa told No Camels.

Seidman and Gilboa began AVIF with the idea that AI would excel at detecting the best embryos at the “crucial point” compared with the fallible human eye.

Using large amounts of biological data, the platform can detect milestones and phases of a developing embryo that indicate viability.

AVIF’s EMA platform analyzes embryos from Day Zero to Days Five or Six. During that time, the AI technology creates a score for each embryo that predicts its viability.

The results speak for themselves.

EMA has a 38% higher level of accuracy than conventional IVF methods, and high-scoring embryos, according to the EMA rating system, have a 70% chance of creating successful pregnancies.

“This is like endorsing the next generation of IVF,” Gilboa says.

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