Effective screening for breast cancer – the most common cancer among women worldwide – requires considerable resources, which many healthcare systems don’t have.
In particular, dense tissue can make it difficult for a physician to identify a lesion in a standard mammogram, leading to expensive and time-consuming subsequent scans.

To address this challenge, four-year old start-up and 4YFN finalist, MICA has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) system that can clarify mammogram images that are clouded by dense tissue. As the system learns from more and more data, it is getting better and better at producing clear images that enable physicians to spot lesions and other potentially malignant abnormalities.