Moris Atwine 21, Kabwama Alvin Leonard 22, Lwangwa Mwesigwa David 22 are all fresh graduates of Information Technology at Makerere University. The trio developed an app that diagnoses and prevents breast cancer.
The mobile application is called BreastIT designed for windows phone.
BreastIT carries out timely diagnosis of anomalies in the breast, such as breast cancer. This is done by analyzing the images of the inner breast, which are obtained through the use of a customized glove, which with the help of ultrasound sensors, does imaging of the inner breast.
The developers hope to create health booths in village centers, where people will receive a training and later get employed to help the locals with accessing the services.
There is insufficient information at the cancer registries about people who diagnose for breast cancer annually, the information available shall help cancer registries to get accurate statistics.
BreastIT also offers information about radiologists within an area or country.
The trio submitted BreastIT to the Uganda Communications Commission’s ICT For Development Award/ACIA Awards and won USD 5,000 as first runner ups.
President Museveni has promised to fully support it through its final development stages, commercialization and scaling.
