A few clicks that can detect breast cancer

Niramai offers thermo analytics-based cancer screening solution that helps detect breast cancer early

Every year breast cancer claims the lives of over 76,000 women in India and 500,000 globally. A majority of them can be cured and saved if detected early. The current technique of testing like mammography is radiation-based and painful, and not effective for women below 45.

A Bengaluru-based health analytics start-up, Niramai, is using a new technique to detect breast cancer early. It combines an existing technique for cancer screening, thermography with machine learning, to develop a statistical model for cancer diagnosis.

Niramai calls it Thermalytix, a fusion of analytics over thermal imaging, and has applied for patents. It is