Kothai

Like to enjoy the diversity of life in my way :-)

[Sann @san_x_m]

A mammogram missed her cousin's breast cancer. By the time it was found it was too late, and she died.

About 6 months later a second woman in the same family was diagnosed. She died as well.

The woman watching this happen was an artificial intelligence researcher.

Her name is Geetha Manjunath.

She grew up in Bengaluru. She took her bachelor's degree in computer science at UVCE, then a master's and a doctorate at the Indian Institute of Science, where she was a gold medallist.

Her first job was at the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, where she was part of the team that built India's first commercial supercomputer in the 1990s.

She spent 17 years at Hewlett Packard Labs as a principal research scientist. She then became a lab director at Xerox Research in India, heading their data analytics research.

Then the 2 deaths in her family happened, and she went and read about the disease.

What she found is worth knowing.

In India, roughly half the women diagnosed with breast cancer die of it. Her own words are blunt. Every alternate lady detected with breast cancer is dying.

The reason is almost never the treatment. It is that the disease is found too late.

Mammograms are the standard test. They use x-rays, they are expensive, they are uncomfortable, they need a large fixed machine, and there is a specific medical problem with them. In younger women the breast tissue is denser, and dense tissue and tumours both show up white on the scan. So the tumour can hide.

That is what happened to her cousin.

She started working on it in her spare time, on weekends, with a small team, while still employed.

The idea was to use thermal imaging instead. A cancer uses more energy than normal tissue and the blood flow around it increases, so the area is slightly warmer. A thermal camera can see that heat pattern from a distance, without touching the body and without any radiation.

The hard part is reading it. Heat patterns are messy. That is where her actual expertise came in. She trained machine learning software to interpret them.

Their first test was with a medical college in Manipal, using thermal images of 72 cancer patients.

It worked.

In 2016 she left her job and started a company with a former colleague, Nidhi Mathur. They called it Niramai, which stands for Non Invasive Risk Assessment with Machine Intelligence, and which in Sanskrit also means free from illness.

The test needs no radiation, no touch, no pain, and no one else in the room. It works on women of any age and any breast density. The equipment is portable, so it can be taken to villages.

More than 400,000 women have now been screened across over 250 locations in India. More than 2,000 cancers have been found.

The technology has regulatory clearance in the United States and in Europe. She holds 14 American patents.

She has one line she repeats.

Nobody needs to die of breast cancer, if you can catch it early enough.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

To understand the world, read.
To understand yourself, write.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

Changing your opinion after learning new information is a mark of true intelligence.

[Kothai @KothaiKirthi]

@refereeofkids Entire album is. One of Karthik Raja's best

[feyisayo 💸 @feyiszn]

instead of saying thank you, someone said: "May God ease things for you as you have eased things for me." and it hasn’t left me since then.

[Kothai @KothaiKirthi]

@exit30b Andha spain kodi innum parkalaiya

[Kothai @KothaiKirthi]

@beastoftraal Thanks for sharing. Didn't notice it before. This cute aid wins over digital anytime.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

I’m in love with this sentence:

“The longer you stay on the wrong train, the more expensive it is to get home.”

[Kothai @KothaiKirthi]

@sugunadiwakar அன்னைக்கே நெனச்சேன் இந்த செய்கை எதிர் கட்சிக்குனு யோசிச்சி கோபப்படற அளவுக்கு வொர்த் இல்ல.

ஆனா ஆளில்லாத கடையில யாருக்கு டீ ஆத்துறாங்கன்னு அப்ப புரியல.

இப்ப டைட்டில் கார்ட்ல போட்டும் இந்த செய்கை தங்களுக்குனு புரியாம 🔥 விடற ரசிகர்கள் தான் பாவம்.

[P. Wilson @PWilsonDMK]

My Private Member Bill to abolish NEET in the Medical and Dental courses has been listed as serial number 16 on 24.7.2026 before the Parliament. If this Bill becomes law, then the States are at liberty to opt out of NEET and devise their own admission procedures for Dental and Medical courses. #AbolishNEET #Neetscam #BanNeet_SaveStudents
@mkstalin @Udhaystalin @arivalayam

[Kothai @KothaiKirthi]

@YouGoManWhyMe When pushpa 2 gets, no comments on rest.

[Kothai @KothaiKirthi]

Tried it n it works like a charm.

[Bilim Dünyası @dunyasalbilim]

Gümüşü temizlemenin en hızlı yolu: Sıcak su, karbonat, tuz ve alüminyum folyo. Gerisini bilim hallediyor.

[Balu Gorade @BaluGorade]

Airtel officially prohibits sharing Unlimited 5G Data via mobile hotspots.

What about laptop users? Many users, including me, rely on mobile hotspots to connect their laptops. @airtelindia.

[Kothai @KothaiKirthi]

@exit30b Yayyy enga Alankar. Hope u had good food.

[Kothai @KothaiKirthi]

@dietparhoon Try hair mask or conditioner for long term result. For quick hair do, try hair finishing sticks - sleek n easy.

Cause is Vit D or B12 deficiency though.

[Kothai @KothaiKirthi]

@refereeofkids I like ARR version. But sad movie cldnt match expectations on either versions

[Kothai @KothaiKirthi]

@NaziaFarheen84 Hv u seen koozhangal.. a slow movie but it's the same as above in nutshell

[Kothai @KothaiKirthi]

@Lollubee Everyone doing at hospitals too.

[Kothai @KothaiKirthi]

@NaziaFarheen84 Guess the video was his daughter's wedding where they all attended n not his recent wedding