Smart Buddy

Project Title

Smart Buddy

Project Area of Specialization

Artificial Intelligence

Project Summary

Breast cancer is the leading cause of women death worldwide and Pakistan has the highest death rate in the Asia. There is lack of awareness and facilities for its diagnosis. Our project is to create a hardware device (Smart Buddy) that can detect breast cancer among women by simply wearing it. It'll be much cheaper and easy to access than mammograms. Mammograms are painful and are unable to detect cancer among younger women. The smart shirt we are creating will be able to detect the breast cancer among any age group women using thermal, ultrasonic and IR imaging sensors. Additionally, it digitalizes the process of detecting tumor in the mammogram’s images

Project Objectives

• Smart shirt for quick and painless breast cancer detection.

• Digitizing tumor detection in mammograms.

Project Implementation Method

This project will be two-fold:

A hardware device capable of instant and accurate breast cancer detection.
Improving existing technique to automate breast cancer detection through mammograms.

This project will automatically detect and give a result in terms of a “percentage of chance”. As it will be dealing with visual imagery, the branch of deep learning to be used will be Convolutional Neural Networks(CNN).

Benefits of the Project

Breast cancer has the second highest mortality rate in women next to lung cancer. As per clinical statistics, 1 in
every 8 women is diagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetime. Smart Buddy can detect breast cancer among
women by simply wearing it. It'll be much cheaper and easy to access than mammograms

Technical Details of Final Deliverable

The project is a combination of hardware and software. The hardware part is development of smart shirt with
integrated Ultrasonic, InfraRed and Thermal sensors. Based on the collected data from the smart shirt, the
software application will used Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) to detect and predict breast cancer.