{"id":10790,"date":"2025-04-17T05:55:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T05:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dmu.ae\/home\/?post_type=blog_post&#038;p=10790"},"modified":"2025-05-23T05:58:29","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T05:58:29","slug":"aena-khan-represents-dmu-at-mohap-innovation-hackathon-with-sound-a-breast-cancer-screening-concept","status":"publish","type":"blog_post","link":"https:\/\/dmu.ae\/home\/blog-post\/aena-khan-represents-dmu-at-mohap-innovation-hackathon-with-sound-a-breast-cancer-screening-concept\/","title":{"rendered":"Aena Khan Represents DMU at MOHAP Innovation Hackathon with \u201cSOUND\u201d \u2013 A Breast Cancer Screening Concept"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p align=\"justify\">Aena Khan, a second-year medical student at DMU, participated in the MOHAP Innovation Hackathon on March 18th, tackling the \u201cBreast Cancer Screening &amp; Diagnosis\u201d challenge as part of a national initiative by the Ministry of Health and Prevention.<br>\n<br>\nWorking alongside a diverse team of students and professionals from institutions including Khalifa University, University of Sharjah, RAK Medical University, and NYU Abu Dhabi, Aena co-developed SOUND, Self-Operated Ultrasound Non-invasive Diagnostics, an AI-powered kiosk designed to make breast cancer screening more accessible, affordable, and private.<br>\n<br>\nThe kiosks guide users through a self-conducted breast ultrasound and provide instant, AI-generated preliminary results. Aena played a key leadership role in research, strategy, and pitching. SOUND stands as a promising innovation toward inclusive and early cancer detection across the UAE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"749\" src=\"http:\/\/dmu.ae\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/mohap_hackthonemy22.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10791\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dmu.ae\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/mohap_hackthonemy22.jpg 600w, https:\/\/dmu.ae\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/mohap_hackthonemy22-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/dmu.ae\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/mohap_hackthonemy22-530x662.jpg 530w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aena Khan, a second-year medical student at DMU, participated in the MOHAP Innovation Hackathon on March 18th, tackling the \u201cBreast Cancer Screening &amp; Diagnosis\u201d challenge as part of a national initiative by the Ministry of Health and Prevention. Working alongside a diverse team of students and professionals from institutions including Khalifa University, University of Sharjah, <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10792,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"blog-category":[56,71],"class_list":["post-10790","blog_post","type-blog_post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","blog-category-medicine","blog-category-dsa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmu.ae\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog_post\/10790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmu.ae\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog_post"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmu.ae\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/blog_post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmu.ae\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmu.ae\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10790"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmu.ae\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmu.ae\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmu.ae\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10790"},{"taxonomy":"blog-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmu.ae\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog-category?post=10790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}