IISc: AI oral cancer screening has reached over 70,000 patients

The TANUH AI Centre of Excellence at IISc Bengaluru builds AI diagnostics for non-communicable diseases in India. Its oral cancer screening app has covered more than 70,000 patients, while a breast cancer risk model claims about 83% accuracy with a 97% negative predictive value.

• TANUH is one of four Indian AI centres of excellence, focused on non-communicable diseases (70% of burden)
• The Aarogya Aarohan app for oral cancer screening has screened over 70,000 patients
• A 10-question AI questionnaire predicts breast cancer risk with ~83% accuracy
• Only ~1% of Indian women over 40 get mammograms: 3,500 machines for 200 million women