Arshia Ghatak
Inventor of PinkAlert
Arshia Ghatak is a high school student researcher and inventor from the San Francisco Bay Area and the founder of PinkAlert.
Her work began with a personal experience with breast cancer as a teenager. Shortly afterward, she came up with the idea for PinkAlert: an affordable way for young women to check their breast health at home and to know when it is time to see a doctor.
She began the research in the Arumugaswami Lab at UCLA, led by Prof. Vaithi Arumugaswami, and went on to develop it under the mentorship of a University of Pennsylvania PhD. The result is a machine-learning system that classifies breast ultrasound images as normal, benign or malignant. It was published in the American Journal of Student Research in 2026 and released as open-source software for anyone to use and improve.
She has since designed a handheld, force-guided ultrasound probe that helps someone without medical training capture a consistent, useful scan, filed a provisional patent on the device, and shared her story on the TEDxDVHS stage in From Patient to Innovator.
Her goal is to make breast healthcare accessible to everyone, and to give young women an early, honest signal to see a doctor when it matters.
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To collaborate on PinkAlert, evaluate the analyzer or discuss the project, start a conversation on GitHub.