Embryonic image enhancement based on genetic algorithm and generic filter

Abstract

Monitoring the development of embryos in In vitro fertilization (IVF) clinical procedures is essential to prevent missing crucial events, so embryos should be kept a couple of days in a Time-Lapse. Time-Lapse is a heating incubator with an embedded camera. The captured images by these devices are usually influenced by many several different kinds of factors. This paper employs a robust, fault tolerant and reliable method to enhance the quality of embryonic images using composite filter which is a combination of several types of filters. Likewise, a comparison is presented between our method and some other enhancement techniques. Finally, the experimental results showed this method could efficiently enhance the quality of captured embryos' images.