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Niramai
Health
Analytix
Dr. Geetha Manjunath Ms. Nidhi Mathur
CEO & CTO COO & CFO
A
s an innovative technology,
Artificial Intelligence is
proving its ground as a
potential tool to tackle various
challenges in today’s healthcare
vertical. The core mathematics used by
AI algorithms has now matured and the
accuracy levels of automated decision
making has reached the threshold of
acceptance, and in some cases even has
surpassed or countered the human
decision making. This has unleashed a
Offering a Revolutionary Solution for
Universal Cancer Screening
new era of innovation creating real-life
impact. This is leading to AI making
real impact in various areas, with
healthcare being the most important
and impactful space.
Breast cancer has become the talk of
the town due to the rising mortality and
incidence rate, especially amongst the
young female population. There are
quite a few challenges in the diagnosis
of breast cancer in young women.
Special
consideration must
be given to the
woman’s safety
from radiation and
body image issues.
In light of this
situation, Niramai
Health Analytix
has come up with
a novel AI based
solution to detect
early stage breast
cancer in a
completely safe
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and privacy aware manner. It is a
health technology startup offering
cancer diagnosis solution to Hospitals
and Diagnostic centers, as well as a
low cost cancer screening solution to
improve rural healthcare solutions
through Government and Non- Profit
Organizations.
With a vision to incorporate its test as a
standard preventive screening tool into
the clinical practice across the country,
Niramai has introduced a new
technique called Thermalytix™. It is a
novel computer-aided diagnosis
solution to identify cancer and
pre-cancerous patients in an affordable,
accessible, and effective way. The
company’s solution is a non-contact,
non-invasive, low cost, portable
solution for detecting breast cancer for
women of all ages. The tool does not
require expert skills to operate the
system and can enable large scale rural
screening; making breast cancer
detection accessible to every woman.
The core of Niramai’s software
consists of novel computer algorithms
DECEMBER 2018