Identification of individual sperm is essential to assess a given sperm sample's motility behavior. Existing computer-aided systems need training data based on annotations by professionals, which is resource demanding. On the other hand, data analysed by unsupervised machine learning algorithms can improve supervised algorithms that are more stable for clinical applications. Therefore, unsupervised sperm identification can improve computer-aided sperm analysis systems predicting different aspects of sperm samples. Other possible applications are assessing kinematics and counting of spermatozoa.

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are increasingly used to improve and automate processes in gastroenterology, like the detection of polyps during a colonoscopy. An important input to these methods is images and videos. Up until now, no well-defined, common understanding or standard regarding the resolution of the images and video frames has been defined, and to reduce processing time and resource requirements, images are today almost always down-sampled. However, how such down-sampling and the image resolution influence the performance in context with medical data is unknown. In this work, we investigate how the resolution relates to the performance of convolutional neural networks. This can help set standards for image or video characteristics for future CNN based models in gastrointestinal endoscopy.