Successful Innovation by five Bangladeshi Young People Breast Cancer Detection Technology

NeoScreenix. The team of five students from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET). The team won the Digital Health Track 2025 championship at the John’s Hopkins Healthcare Designcompetition for inventing technology to detect Breast Cancer at an early stage.

The internationalJohn’s Hopkins Healthcare Design Competition is organized annually byJohn Hopkins Center for Bioengineering Innovation and Design. It is an institution of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University in the United States. The aim of the competition is to find innovative solutions to ant healthcare problem from teams from the world’s best universities. About 440 proposals from 44 countries participated in this year’s competition in three categories. Which are- Solutions for Advanced Health Systems, Global Health/ Humanitarian Design, Digital Health.

The team ofNeoScreenixwon the first place in the Digital heath Track category of the competition, beating out students from universities like Harvard, MIT, Stanford and Caltech. They submitted their proposals in January 2025. Then, on March 10, the finalists of the competition were determined. There are another team from BUET and Neoscreenixwere among the six finalists in the Digital Health Track category. The final phase of the competition was held online on April 12. The winner was announced that day.

NeoScreenix has five team members.

Project Designer- Fahmida Sultana, Machine Learning Developer- HM ShadmanTabib, Backend Developer- Sadatul Islam Sadi, Frontend Developer- Hasnain Adil and Hardware Developer- Prithu anan.All are studying in the 20^th batch of the CSE department of BUET.

Professor Md. Sohel Rahman is the Supervisor of the project. ZarinTasnimOishee (Dhaka Medical) and Ribatul Islam (Rangpur Medical) helped in Data Collection.

By this invention, the team has developed the technology that will allow a woman to self-assess her risk of Breast cancer. Where a woman can screen her breasts with the help of AI. It will also be possible to detect Breast cancer at a very early stage by looking at the symptoms.

Hopefully, this technology will be a blessing for women.