IISc Researcher Turns Personal Tragedy Into AI-Powered Breast Cancer Detection Tool

Two family members died from breast cancer after late detection, including one case where mammography failed to identify the disease.

When grief meets expertise, it can become something the world did not know it needed. Dr. Geetha Manjunath, an AI and supercomputing researcher with three decades of experience, lost two cousins to late-detected breast cancer — one of whom had received a clear mammogram — and chose to answer that loss with the only tools she had mastered. In 2016, she co-founded NIRAMAI Health Analytix, whose thermal imaging and machine learning platform has since screened over 400,000 women across India, finding more than 2,000 cancers without radiation or physical compression. Her story asks a quiet but endu

IISc Researcher Turns Personal Tragedy Into AI-Powered Breast Cancer Detection Tool

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