Israeli AI tool aiding IVF patients in London clinics

An artificial intelligence tool developed in Israel to help improve outcomes for patients undergoing fertility treatment is now being used in three London clinics.

Named “Chloe” - short for Cultivating Human Life through Optimal Embryos - the tool uses time-lapse imagery to determine the likelihood of an embryo becoming a viable pregnancy, with the data helping embryologists making clinical decisions during in vitro fertilisation (IVF) treatment. 

The time-lapse incubator, which houses the developing embryos, takes pictures of the embryo every 10 minutes as it is developing, from day zero, to day five or six. The software, developed by Tel Aviv-based tech firm Fairtility, is integrated with the incubator, analysing the image data in real time to assess embryo quality and viability.

Professor Assaf Ben Meir, director of the fertility and IVF unit at Hadassah Medical Centre and chief medical officer and co-founder of Fairtility, said: "Chloe detects biomarkers that humans are unable to detect, identifies these features and analyses them to determine embryo quality.