Synopsis:
When several of his relatives who suffered from breast cancer could not be saved, Abdul Mutalib Abdul Hamid was determined to do what he could to help others with the disease.

Now, he and Goh Yan Kun, a fellow student at NP, have succeeded in developing a new technique to diagnose breast cancer automatically.

Working on thermograms, the Biomedical Engineering students were able to automatically identify normal or malignant breasts without the presence of the doctor. The images are fed into a computer and are then analysed by a program. So far, the Biomedical Engineering students have achieved a success rate of 90 per cent.

.The project was among those exhibited at NP as part of the Engineering Week organised by the five polytechnics. About 90 workshops and competitions are also held during this time.

Synopsis:
Two Ngee Ann Polytechnic (NP) students invented a software to identify diabetic retinopathy, and won a Polytechnic Student Research Programme Award. More than 240 final-year students from NP, Singapore Polytechnic (SP) and Temasek Polytechnic (TP) submitted 81 projects. In the end, six received awards and a cash prize of $500 each.

The two students, Gracielynne E Flores and Melissa Tan Yan Jun are final year students from the Biomedical Engineering Diploma Course graduating in 2008.