OralScan

OralScan is a handheld bimodal imaging camera for detection of oral precancers at the point-of-care. It can be placed in a patient's mouth to easily screen oral tissues and capture multispectral images on illumination with LED light to evaluate the tissue status in real-time using a machine learning algorithm. This portable device can store images in its internal memory or on the cloud, and makes cancer screening as easy and painless as taking a picture. The device can also be  used for biopsy guidance and to delineate tissue margins during cancer surgery.

OralScan has been validated though a clinical study covering 314 patients and correlation of pathological data from 114 patients has given a sensitivity of 83% and specificity of 72% to discriminate between nomral and premalignant tissues of the oral cavity.

We are a start-up company incubated at the TIMed, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences & Technology (SCTIMST), BMT Wing, Poojapura campus, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, having our registered office in Bangalore, India.  At Sascan we are developing affordable optical imaging technologies that can detect pre-cancerous changes in squamous epithelial tissues of the oral cavity and cervix. Our oral cancer screening program was supported under the BIG scheme of BIRAC, Govt of India. The hand-held bimodal imaging device that we are developing will transform the way cancers of the oral cavity are diagnosed and treated. 

Our vision: ‘to provide affordable screening solutions to the masses’ 

Our mission: ‘to develop affordable devices for oral and cervical cancer screening, diversify into developing screening solutions for other diseases and offer value-added services in biophotonics.

Early screening for most squamous cell cancers is not possible because of low diagnostic accuracy, high costs and painful procedures. Our mission is to make screening technology so accurate, painless and cheap that screening can be had as routinely as dental checkups