AI’s new cancer-screening partner has four legs and a very good nose

Start-up leans on cancer-sniffing dogs and AI for early detection

On a 0.8 hectare farm outside Bengaluru, India, Billy, Jessie and Banu put on their gear, enter a laboratory packed with samples and clock in for a shift detecting early signs of cancer. Their most important diagnostic equipment is their noses. Billy, Jessie and Banu are part of a team of beagles, l

Bizarre Trial: Canines Nail Cancer Signals

A low-cost breath test using trained dogs and artificial intelligence reportedly detected multiple cancers with about 90% accuracy in a large Phase 2 study. Story Highlights Indian startup Dognosis reports around 90% sensitivity and specificity across seven cancers in a 1,500-person trial. The test uses a 10-minute breath sample, trained dogs, and software that translates...

AI’s new cancer-screening partner has four legs and a very good nose

Indian startup Dognosis combines trained detection dogs with sensors and AI to flag cancer-associated signals from breath, with a 10,000-person Phase 3 trial underway.

This Bengaluru startup is training dogs and AI to sniff out cancer early

Dognosis pairs trained sniffer dogs with artificial intelligence to flag cancer from a breath sample. It is a charming idea aimed at a real problem, with equally real caveats: this is prescreening in trials, not a proven diagnostic. A dog’s nose has long outclassed most laboratory kit, and a two-year-old Bengaluru startup called Dognosis is […] This story continues at The Next Web

Indian Startup Leans on Cancer-Sniffing Dogs and AI for Early Detection

On a two-acre farm outside Bengaluru in southern India, Billy, Jessie and Banu put on their gear, enter a laboratory packed with samples and clock in for a shift detecting early signs of cancer.

Dogs can smell some chemicals at concentrations approaching one part per trillion — roughly a tenth of a drop diluted into two Olympic-sized swimming pools — and trained dogs have identified lung and colorectal cancer from a person's breath alone.

Imagine one tenth of a liquid drop dispersed through two Olympic-sized swimming pools. Taking a typical drop as about 0.05 millilitres and the pools as roughly 2.5 million litres each, that dilution is close to one part per trillion by volume. For some odorants, dogs have detected concentrations approaching that scale under controlled conditions. Researchers have used that sensitivity to investigate an idea that once sounded improbable: disease …