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

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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.  READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2026/09/08/can-dogs-sniff-out-cancer-indian-start-up-turns-their-noses-to-ai  Subscribe to our channel. Euronews is available on Dailymotion in 12 languages

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00:26It's like a doggy Iron Man suit which measures their brain

00:29activity, their respiration patterns, their body language and then we have machine learning

00:34models which can take that data and predict whether the dog is smelling a certain odor

00:39like cancer

01:02So a dog sniffs at a frequency of 5 times a second, in an hour they can do thousands

01:07of sniffs, each sniff can actually evaluate a sample

01:10You will see that once she goes and eats, there is a different kind of signal

01:15When the testing is happening, I check everything is fine

01:30Some of the dogs run directly to the feeder expecting rewards, some dogs freeze, some

01:35dogs be scratched at the sample with excitement and we don't really care as long as the machine

01:42that learns how the dogs react to the sample is very consistent and you know is very accurate

02:12Good job

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