ANALYSIS SOFTWARE AND APPARATUS FOR SCREENING EARLY EMBRYO

摘要

To provide software and an apparatus which can be used as means for increasing a success rate of in-vitro fertilization.SOLUTION: There are provided software for analyzing an image of a fertilized egg including: (a) a step of measuring an area difference between a female pronucleus and a male pronucleus from an image of the fertilized egg obtained 1 to 10 hours before disappearance of female/male pronucleus nuclear membrane while using the disappearance time of the membrane as a reference; (b) a step of measuring an area difference between the female pronucleus and the male pronucleus from an image of the fertilized egg obtained immediately before the disappearance of female/male pronucleus nuclear membrane while using the disappearance time of membrane as a reference; and (c) a step of storing measured values of the area difference obtained in the step (a) and the area difference obtained in the step (b) in a randomly readable manner, which is software for providing means for executing process including the steps. There is also provided for providing means for executing a process, and an apparatus incorporating the software.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 3