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Can dogs sniff out cancer? Indian start-up turns their noses to AI

A start-up in India is combining dogs' highly sensitive sense of smell with artificial intelligence to explore a new approach to cancer screening.

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00:26It's like a doggy Iron Man suit which
00:28measures their brain activity, their respiration patterns, their body language and then we
00:33have machine learning models which can take that data and predict whether the
00:36dog is smelling a certain odor like cancer.
01:02So a dog sniffs at a frequency of five times a second.
01:05In an hour they can do thousands of sniffs.
01:07Each sniff can actually evaluate a sample.
01:30Some of the dogs run there to the feeder expecting reward, some dogs freeze, some dogs
01:35scratch the sample with excitement and we don't really care as long as the machine that learns
01:43how the dogs react to the sample is very consistent and you know it's very accurate.
01:48So

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