How innovations in AI, virtual reality are advancing healthcare in India to new frontiers

Dr Vani Ravikumar has been a pathologist for almost three decades. Her daily routine involves going through samples, one after another, one after another, day in and day out. Recently, Bengaluru-based AIndra, an artificial intelligence-based cervical cancer screening startup, reached out to her. Its proposition was simple-- apply AI to screen and identify samples. Only those samples indicating a risk of cancer would be sent to the experts for further examination. "My first thought was, 'you are going to replace me, your algorithm will say if cancer is present or not.'