Sperm hunting on optical microscope slides for forensic analysis with deep convolutional networks – a feasibility study

Organization

Zurich Institute of Forensic Medicine

Description

Finding sperm cells under an optical microscope is a task which is time-consuming and difficult for a human being. This study shows how convolutional neural networks can be used to speed up the process. Two networks were tested based on the VGG19 architecture with a resulting accuracy of over 90%. Human oversight is still necessary to rule out false positives. The oversight is aided by a simple visual guide that can be provided to the overseeing experts which helps determine the accuracy of any given result.

File
PIIS1872497321001393.pdf
Link
https://www.fsigenetics.com/article/S1872-4973(21)00139-3/fulltext
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Perpetrators
Type
Research (peer reviewed)
Year
2022
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