Accelerate Your Workflow with AI-Powered Sperm Detection

The manual microscopic examination of forensic evidence in suspected sexual assault cases is time-consuming and prone to errors. Furthermore, it often lacks consistent documentation of findings. This form of analysis frequently adds to the increasing backlogs faced by many laboratories, causing significant delays in resolving such cases.

Our proposed Metafer-based workflow for forensic sperm detection, implemented and validated by users worldwide, leverages artificial intelligence with Deep Neural Networks (DNN) to detect forensic sperm cells, even in challenging conditions such as degradation, concealment, or absence of tails. Metafer supports unattended scanning of up to 800 slides, prioritizes samples, and includes barcode reading functionality. Equipped with Neon technology, this routine ensures secure data handling, offering full traceability, multi-level user accounts, and protection against unauthorized modifications. It produces gallery images with quality scores and precise coordinates, streamlining efficient review and retrieval under the microscope, and enabling seamless transfer to external microdissection systems.

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Customization Packages

MetaSystems software provides, among other functions, features to assist users with image processing. These include, but are not limited to, the use of machine and deep learning algorithms for pattern recognition. The output generated in this process should be regarded as preliminary suggestions and, in any case, mandatorily requires review and assessment by trained experts.

MetaSystems offers Customization Packages for application workflows that have been successfully implemented for customer labs using standard Metafer platform functionality. It is expected that they can be implemented for other customer labs using similar workflows and slide preparation procedures. If a Customization Package is purchased, MetaSystems product specialists will – based on their experience from other similar application cases - support the customer lab in adapting the Metafer software configuration to their needs. The performance of the solution will depend on the quality of the customer slides and the expertise of the users, MetaSystems cannot specify or guarantee any performance parameters. The validation of the solution for clinical use is the sole responsibility of the customer lab.