AI screening

A cancer patient consulting with a doctor
By  Adam Ang 06:38 pm April 23, 2025
A program to screen women for cervical cancer using AI has been launched in Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam. Community organisation Ho Chi Minh City Public Health Association (HPHA) partnered with listed Australian company TruScreen and its local distributor Gorton Health Services to run the community-based program, which aims to screen 260,000 women in the city over five years.  The partnership...
Echo IQ's EchoSolv running on a digital tablet
By  Adam Ang 12:02 am December 8, 2022
ASX-listed medical AI company Echo IQ has launched its cloud-based platform for screening structural heart disease in the United States. WHAT IT DOES The software platform called EchoSolv supports the identification of structural heart diseases, including guideline-defined aortic stenosis at present, automating this process using AI. It can also complete bulk assessments at a rate of up to 48,000...
A newborn child with their parents
By  Adam Ang 03:29 am September 8, 2022
A new screening programme in India leverages machine learning to reduce the risk of preventable blindness due to retinopathy of prematurity among premature babies. ROP is a condition that occurs when abnormal blood vessels grow in the retina. WHAT IT'S ABOUT CleaVision, a social venture supported by enterprise software provider SAP, developed a solution that automates the identification of retina...
A photo of a person's eye
By  Adam Ang 01:46 am June 23, 2022
Researchers from the Singapore Eye Research Institute have developed two novel AI-powered tools for screening chronic kidney disease and predicting a person's biological age from retina photos. Both tools use AI deep learning algorithms to scan photos of an individual's retina to assess their health condition. WHAT THEY DO The kidney disease screening tool called RetiKid was developed by SERI and...