Design and Development of Simplified, Low-Cost Technologies for Clinical IVF: Applications in High- and Low-Resource Settings
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- Authors
- Jonathan Van Blerkom; Christine Hennigan; Willem Ombelet
- Source
- In Vitro Fertilization ISBN: 9783319430102
- Subject
- education.field_of_study
Computer science
Process (engineering)
Low resource
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Population
Developing country
Treatment options
Risk analysis (engineering)
Competence assessment
Function (engineering)
education
Developed country
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- Language
This chapter discusses methods by which the human in vitro fertilization and embryo culture process can be significantly simplified for use in low-resource developing countries at low cost yet deliver outcomes similar to those commonplaces in high-resource developed countries using high-complexity IVF laboratories. The addition of a simplified albeit robust time-lapse and streaming video capacity adds a competence assessment function that is emerging as an important diagnostic tool for embryo selection in high-complexity laboratories in developed countries that can be extended to their counterparts in developing countries at low cost. The purposes of developing these methodologies is to offer an affordable treatment option to a larger population of infertile couples in both developed and developing countries that are currently under-represented and unserved owing to issues associated with affordability, absence, or lack of access to IVF programs.