Can dogs sniff cancer? AI joins the hunt in India
The study tested more than 1,500 participants across six Karnataka hospitals and now moves toward real-world trials and commercial approval.
- The Bengaluru-based startup Dognosis reported more than 90 percent accuracy in detecting cancer across a study of more than 1,500 participants involving six hospitals in Karnataka, published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
- Co-Founder Itamar Bitan, who spent four years in an Israeli special-forces canine unit, trains 15 dogs using 3D-printed helmets to detect cancer via "positive reinforcement" to identify a "specific funky smell."
- Patients breathe into masks for about 10 minutes; co-founder Akash Kulgod told AFP dogs at "Sniffspace" maintain a "work-life balance" while performing thousands of sniffs hourly.
- While Santhosh Kumar Devadas, head of oncology at Ramaiah Memorial Hospital, called the study "promising, as an early signal," he urged larger trials before definitive conclusions, noting cancer affects one in nine of India's 1.4 billion people.
- Backed by venture-capital firm Accel India, Dognosis seeks commercial approval to deploy screening at scale; global research suggests similar canine training could detect illnesses from Parkinson to COVID-19.
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When asylum doggie Chloe isn't rolling across the lawn of a farm outside India's tech capital Bengaluru, she is taught to sniff out human breath to detect cancer with less help from artificial intelligence. It is equipped with a 3D printed helmet and belt full of sensors and [...] Indian scientists are training dogs to sniff with the help of artificial intelligence — cancer first appeared on New Leaf.
INDIAN startup Dognosis combines artificial intelligence and canine scent to detect cancer early with an accuracy of more than 90 percent.
Equipped with a helmet and harness truffled with sensors, this labrador cross dog is part of a group of 15 canids trained by a start-up that develops an inexpensive and non-invasive screening tool.Scientific work...
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