Menerva - Smart Bra for Early Detection of Breast Cancer
The project revolves around creating a smart bra that informs its user about the risk of developing breast cancer. The bra has several high-tech sensors attached to it that sends various important readings from the breast region to an app installed on the smartphone via Bluetooth. The sensors include several thermal sensors that monitors temperature changes over a circadian cycle in a human being and a heartbeat sensor which determines the activity of the person based on her heartbeat (running/jogging etc) The app also takes some values from the user manually (age, race, average blood pressure, periods). All of these factors combined with temperature changes are used to determine the probability of a risk that a person is going to develop breast cancer using a Machine Learning Model. The device by no means aims to replace the doctor (oncologist) but aims to provide a better assessment than self-examination and to provide assistance to the doctor and increase awareness of breast cancer.