用AI实现精准精子分析,提升男性不育诊断可靠性
Deep Learning for Semen Analysis in Male Infertility: Computer Vision, Multimodal Fusion, and Clinical Translation

- 融合计算机视觉与多模态数据,自动识别精子特征
- 构建包含影像、时间序列与临床数据的综合评估体系
- 面向临床落地设计分阶段验证路径,解决真实场景挑战
男性不育对全球不孕负担影响重大,精液分析仍是诊断、治疗和辅助生殖技术的核心。传统评估方法依赖人工,存在主观差异大、重复性差等问题,亟需客观可复现的计算方法。本文综述人工智能驱动的精子分析进展,聚焦计算机视觉、深度学习、多模态融合、鲁棒性及临床转化。涵盖精子检测计数、运动轨迹分析、语义与实例分割、形态与缺陷分类、功能评估及遗传完整性评价等任务。总结公开数据集、基准测试、评价指标及融合显微图像、延时视频、CASA参数、DNA完整性检测与临床信息的多模态策略。讨论实际部署关键障碍:数据稀缺、跨中心域偏移、标注不一致、可解释性、不确定性校准、隐私保护学习与流程集成。提出从技术标准化到上市后监测的分阶段临床转化路线图。通过整合从视觉识别到可信多模态生殖智能的全链条研究,揭示该领域已取得进展与仍待突破的关键挑战。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Male infertility contributes substantially to the global infertility burden, and sperm analysis remains central to diagnosis, treatment planning, and assisted reproductive technology. Conventional semen evaluation, however, is labor-intensive, operator-dependent, and limited by inter- and intra-observer variability, motivating the development of objective and reproducible computational approaches. This review provides a comprehensive and perspective-oriented synthesis of artificial intelligence-driven sperm analysis, with a focus on computer vision, deep learning, multimodal fusion, robustness, and clinical translation. We first review task-specific methods for sperm detection and counting, tracking-based motility assessment, semantic and instance segmentation, morphology and defect classification, functional assessment, and genetic integrity evaluation. We then summarize public datasets, benchmarks, evaluation metrics, and emerging multimodal strategies that integrate microscopic images, time-lapse videos, CASA-derived parameters, DNA integrity assays, and clinical metadata. Beyond algorithmic performance, we discuss key barriers to real-world deployment, including data scarcity, cross-center domain shift, annotation inconsistency, interpretability, uncertainty calibration, privacy-preserving learning, and workflow integration. Finally, we outline a staged clinical translation roadmap spanning technical standardization, multicenter retrospective validation, silent prospective evaluation, human-in-the-loop clinical testing, ART outcome validation, regulatory approval, and post-market monitoring. By organizing the field from task-specific visual recognition to trustworthy multimodal reproductive intelligence, this review highlights both the progress and the unresolved challenges required to translate AI-driven sperm analysis into clinically meaningful decision support.
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