Using AI to help automate diagnostics

Conversations with entrepreneurs, technologists, and researchers on emerging technologies and essential knowledge for students in the field.

The next in the series featuring conversations with entrepreneurs, technologists and researchers about emerging technologies and what students need to know about these fields.

What do you do?

I am the CEO of a company called 5C, which I also founded. My job is to conceptualise unique, profitable and hard-to-copy products, build a high performing team that can bring these products to life and take them to customers. I hold a B.Tech. in Computer Science from NIT Surathkal and a PG Diploma from NLS Bengaluru.

Why is your work important?

5C is a medical AI company specialising in remote radiology reporting and advanced AI-powered diagnostic tools. A large part of diagnostics and reporting in healthcare is manual and time-consuming and, in some cases, prone to errors. In countries like India, qualified medical professionals like radiologists are in short supply. We bring advances in AI to help automate diagnostics and make reporting accessible, quick, cost efficient and more accurate.

What is exciting about your work?

With less than 14,000 qualified radiologists, most of them located in urban /Tier 1 cities, access to timely diagnostics is a huge challenge. With advances in AI technology, it is now possible to train machine learning models to perform accurate diagnosis of an X-ray or a CT scan taken anywhere, and share the results quickly. Error-checking algorithms embedded in these models can identify patterns and reduce risk of mistakes.