iDAScore is an AI-powered embryo grading system that helps fertility specialists select embryos with the highest potential for successful implantation and pregnancy. By analysing continuous time-lapse images from an Embryoscope, iDAScore evaluates key developmental factors such as cell division timing, morphology, and cellular movement, then assigns an objective embryo grading score. This data-driven approach reduces subjectivity in embryo selection, enhances embryoscope benefits, and supports higher success rates in IVF and ICSI treatments.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become an essential tool in many areas of medicine, especially in reproductive medicine, which focuses on helping couples experiencing infertility. One of the most critical steps in treatments such as IVF and ICSI is selecting the highest-quality embryos to increase the chances of pregnancy and support successful implantation in the uterus.
iDAScore is an innovative AI technology designed to enhance the accuracy of evaluating embryo quality. The system automatically analyzes embryo development and assigns an Embryo grading score based on growth and morphology. This helps fertility specialists identify embryos with the highest potential for achieving a successful pregnancy.
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What Is iDAScore Technology?
iDAScore is an advanced artificial intelligence system specifically developed to provide highly accurate and efficient embryo grading scores. It works by analyzing continuous images captured through a Time-Lapse Embryoscope, a state-of-the-art device designed to photograph embryos around the clock—24 hours a day—without removing them from the controlled environment of the incubator.
What makes the Time-Lapse Embryoscope particularly valuable is its ability to record detailed images of embryo development every 10–15 minutes. This allows specialists to observe even the smallest developmental changes with precision and completeness. These time-lapse images offer critical insights into embryo quality.
All of this visual data is then analyzed by the iDAScore AI system, which assigns a score and ranks embryos based on their developmental potential, likelihood of implantation, and ability to grow into a healthy baby.
How iDAScore Works
Once the iDAScore system receives continuous time-lapse images of the embryo, it processes all visual data through an AI algorithm trained on tens of thousands of embryos from clinics around the world. This allows the system to evaluate embryo quality with exceptional accuracy based on several key factors:
Cell Division Timing
Embryos that divide at the expected developmental milestones tend to have higher implantation potential and a greater likelihood of having normal chromosomes. The AI analyzes the timing of each division—from the 2-cell stage, to 4 cells, 8 cells, and onward to the blastocyst stage—to calculate the embryo’s overall embryo grading score.
Cell Morphology During Each Stage
The AI system examines the shape, size, and symmetry of each cell, along with how evenly they are arranged. If an embryo shows abnormalities such as uneven cell division, asymmetry, or fragmentation (small pieces breaking off from cells), the system assigns a lower score. These morphological issues can affect the embryo’s ability to implant successfully.
Cellular Movement Within the Embryo
Cellular movement reflects vitality and metabolic energy. iDAScore analyzes subtle cell activity to detect early abnormalities that could affect the embryo’s implantation capability. Even minor irregularities in movement patterns may signal reduced developmental potential.
After evaluating all three factors, iDAScore generates a numerical score. A higher score indicates an embryo with better developmental quality and a stronger potential for implantation and pregnancy.
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Benefits and Effectiveness of iDAScore in the ICSI Process
Integrating iDAScore into the IVF and ICSI process offers significant advantages over traditional embryo assessment methods. These benefits include the following:
Enhances Accuracy in Embryo Selection
AI-driven evaluation helps reduce variability that may occur with human visual assessment, which often depends on the experience level of individual embryologists. In contrast, iDAScore applies a standardized, globally validated system, providing consistent and highly reliable embryo grading scores for embryo selection.
Reduces the Risk of Failed Pregnancy
By identifying and prioritizing embryos with the highest quality and implantation potential, iDAScore helps lower the risk of implantation failure and early miscarriage. This increased precision plays a key role in helping couples achieve a successful pregnancy.
Increases ICSI Success Rates
Research indicates that using iDAScore together with Embryoscope technology — a specialized time-lapse incubator — can improve pregnancy success rates by 10–20% compared to traditional embryo selection methods. This combination provides continuous monitoring and comprehensive data, allowing for the identification of the best-performing embryos.
Selecting embryos with the highest potential is one of the most crucial steps in the IVF and ICSI process. At VFC Center, our reproductive specialists combine advanced iDAScore technology with the proven embryoscope benefits of time-lapse monitoring to enhance embryo selection accuracy, increase pregnancy success rates, and provide comprehensive support for couples on their journey to parenthood.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Q : How is iDAScore different from traditional embryo assessment?
A : Traditional embryo grading relies on visual assessment by embryologists, which can vary depending on individual experience. iDAScore, on the other hand, uses an AI-driven system to analyze continuous time-lapse images of embryos, generating highly accurate and standardized embryo grading scores used worldwide.
Q : If I use iDAScore, do I still need PGT (embryo chromosomal testing)?
A : These two technologies serve different purposes. iDAScore evaluates embryo development and potential based on Time-Lapse imaging, while PGT examines the chromosomal composition at the genetic level. Using both together provides a more comprehensive evaluation, helping select the healthiest embryos and reducing the risk of miscarriage or genetic abnormalities.
Q : Do all patients undergoing ICSI need iDAScore?
A : iDAScore is beneficial for all patients undergoing ICSI, especially those with multiple embryos who want greater confidence in selecting the best one. However, suitability varies by individual. Your fertility specialist will assess your situation and recommend whether this technology is appropriate for your treatment plan.
Q : Can iDAScore really improve pregnancy success rates?
A : Yes. Using AI technology like iDAScore for embryo selection has been shown to significantly increase implantation rates and overall pregnancy success. Because it can identify embryos with the highest developmental potential more accurately than traditional methods, it helps reduce failed implantations and early miscarriages.
Article by Dr. Sorramon Songveeratham
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