L26/P-166 “AI-based automation of Gardner blastocyst grading to improve standardisation across IVF centres”

Human Reproduction (2026)

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L26/P-166 “AI-based automation of Gardner blastocyst grading to improve standardisation across IVF centres”

P. Pawlik, M. Siennicki, J. Kuśmierczyk-Kubiak, A. Vidal Pascual Rodriguez, B. Wojtasik, M. Balanescu, G. Mamede Andrade, U. Sankowska, P. Wygocki

A deep learning model was trained on 6,299 blastocyst images from four IVF centres in Europe and Latin America to automate full Gardner grading (expansion, ICM, TE). It reached a multiclass AUROC of 0.913 and 83.7% top-5 accuracy, with performance holding steady across centres despite equipment and protocol differences.

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