College of Information, Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai 200234, China.
Sensors (Basel). 2024 May 28;24(11):3493. doi: 10.3390/s24113493.
Male infertility is a global health issue, with 40-50% attributed to sperm abnormalities. The subjectivity and irreproducibility of existing detection methods pose challenges to sperm assessment, making the design of automated semen analysis algorithms crucial for enhancing the reliability of sperm evaluations. This paper proposes a comprehensive sperm tracking algorithm (Sperm YOLOv8E-TrackEVD) that combines an enhanced YOLOv8 small object detection algorithm (SpermYOLOv8-E) with an improved DeepOCSORT tracking algorithm (SpermTrack-EVD) to detect human sperm in a microscopic field of view and track healthy sperm in a sample in a short period effectively. Firstly, we trained the improved YOLOv8 model on the VISEM-Tracking dataset for accurate sperm detection. To enhance the detection of small sperm objects, we introduced an attention mechanism, added a small object detection layer, and integrated the SPDConv and Detect_DyHead modules. Furthermore, we used a new distance metric method and chose IoU loss calculation. Ultimately, we achieved a 1.3% increase in precision, a 1.4% increase in recall rate, and a 2.0% improvement in mAP@0.5:0.95. We applied SpermYOLOv8-E combined with SpermTrack-EVD for sperm tracking. On the VISEM-Tracking dataset, we achieved 74.303% HOTA and 71.167% MOTA. These results show the effectiveness of the designed Sperm YOLOv8E-TrackEVD approach in sperm tracking scenarios.
男性不育是一个全球性的健康问题,其中 40-50%归因于精子异常。现有的检测方法存在主观性和不可重复性,这给精子评估带来了挑战,因此设计自动化精液分析算法对于提高精子评估的可靠性至关重要。本文提出了一种全面的精子跟踪算法(Sperm YOLOv8E-TrackEVD),该算法将增强的 YOLOv8 小目标检测算法(SpermYOLOv8-E)与改进的 DeepOCSORT 跟踪算法(SpermTrack-EVD)相结合,用于在显微镜视野中检测人类精子,并在短时间内有效地跟踪样本中的健康精子。首先,我们在 VISEM-Tracking 数据集上训练改进的 YOLOv8 模型,以实现对精子的准确检测。为了增强对小精子目标的检测能力,我们引入了注意力机制,添加了小目标检测层,并集成了 SPDConv 和 Detect_DyHead 模块。此外,我们使用了新的距离度量方法,并选择了 IoU 损失计算。最终,我们的方法在精度上提高了 1.3%,召回率提高了 1.4%,mAP@0.5:0.95 提高了 2.0%。我们将 SpermYOLOv8-E 与 SpermTrack-EVD 结合应用于精子跟踪。在 VISEM-Tracking 数据集上,我们实现了 74.303%的 HOTA 和 71.167%的 MOTA。这些结果表明,所设计的 Sperm YOLOv8E-TrackEVD 方法在精子跟踪场景中是有效的。