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Artificial intelligence in healthcare is often a story of percentages. One 2017 study predicted AI could broadly improve patient outcomes [open, DOI: 10.7717/peerj.7702] [DX] by 30 to 40 percent. Which makes a manifold improvement in results particularly noteworthy.
In this case, according to one Israeli machine learning startup, AI has the potential to boost the success rate of in vitro fertilization (IVF) by as much as 3x compared to traditional methods. In other words, at least according to these results, couples struggling to conceive that use the right AI system could be multiple times more likely to get pregnant.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention defines assisted reproductive technology (ART) as the process of removing eggs from a woman's ovaries, fertilizing it with sperm and then implanting it back in the body.
The overall success rate of traditional ART is less than 30%, according to a recent study [open, DOI: 10.5455/aim.2019.27.205-211] [DX] in the journal Acta Informatica Medica.
But, says Daniella Gilboa, CEO of Tel Aviv, Israel-based AiVF—which provides an automated framework for fertility and IVF treatment—help may be on the way. (However, she also cautions against simply multiplying 3x with the 30% traditional ART success rate quoted above. "Since pregnancy is very much dependent on age and other factors, simple multiplication is not the way to compare the two methods," Gilboa says.)
Journal Reference:
Abhimanyu S. Ahuja. The impact of artificial intelligence in medicine on the future role of the physician, PeerJ (DOI: 10.7717/peerj.7702)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 01 2021, @08:42PM (3 children)
Clueless bullshit and completely wrong advice.
I had a son when I was 42 and VERY glad I waited until I had the resources and more importantly, the maturity and life skills to parent properly.
Also, I got to actually have a great life for a couple of decades where I could go anywhere and do anything I wanted whenever I felt like it, which is an opportunity that people who have kids early never get.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 02 2021, @01:40AM (1 child)
In fairness, you don’t know if you would have enjoyed your life had you had a child earlier. You enjoyed how you did do it (congrats), but you don’t have experience of what it’s like to have a child as a younger person to have anything to say about it. The thing about having responsibility is that it forces you to rise to the occasion.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 02 2021, @04:27AM
Destroy the nuclear family. Turn our K-12 daycare centers into boarding schools. That will solve this dilemma.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 02 2021, @06:46AM
I thought I was horribly slow, unable to get college done until age 25. Once that was done, I immediately made lots of kids. I had the maturity and life skills from age 14, but no resources until completing college.
You're supposed to have "the maturity and life skills to parent properly" by age 14. If you didn't, you might be one of those crazy leftist types (rioting, sleeping around, majoring in something dumb...) who really shouldn't have kids. Actual resources usually can't be had at age 14, but you took 3 times that amount of time. More reasonable ages: 18 for trades and military, 22 for engineering/software/economics/finance/actuary, 24 for lawyer or CPA, 36 for medical doctor. It doesn't take 24 years to get through college.
Assuming you started college at 18, which common but already a couple years later than the achievers, you took 28 years to get your shit sorted out.