How it works

What happens between your video and your dog's report

Six steps, a few minutes, no special hardware. Here's exactly how a clip of your dog walking becomes structured, vet-ready gait data.

1Capture

Record an 8–15 second walking clip

Film your dog walking across the frame in landscape. An on-screen overlay shows the ideal distance and angle, and a capture checklist confirms lighting and full-body framing before you stop.

Record an 8–15 second walking clip
2Pose extraction

AI maps 25 anatomical keypoints

A canine-specific pose-estimation model (YOLOv8-Pose) locates 25 anatomical points — shoulders, hips, hocks, paws, spine — frame by frame, building a motion track of how your dog actually moves.

AI maps 25 anatomical keypoints
3Biomechanics

Keypoints become gait metrics

From that motion track caniscan computes a symmetry index, range of motion, and stride, cadence and velocity — the same families of measurement a gait lab looks at, derived from your phone.

Honesty note: some advanced kinematic stages are still being refined. Today's metrics are best read as directional insight to discuss with a vet, not clinical-grade precision — and caniscan does not publish a fixed accuracy figure.
Keypoints become gait metrics
4AI triage

Ask questions in plain language

A history-aware AI assistant answers questions about the scan using your dog's own data. It is explicitly screened against making diagnostic statements — it explains and contextualizes, it does not diagnose.

Ask questions in plain language
5Report

Everything compiles into one report

Mobility score, metric breakdown, trend context and the AI summary are assembled into a single clean report — readable at a glance and detailed enough to act on.

Everything compiles into one report
6Share

Send it to your vet before the visit

Export a PDF or share a secure link so your veterinarian receives structured, quantitative information ahead of time — not just a verbal description of what you noticed.

Send it to your vet before the visit
Your report

What you get back

Every scan produces the same structured report — readable for you, quantitative for your vet.

Mobility report · BaileySAMPLE
72/100
Mobility score
Good — minor asymmetry
Slight left-hind favoring noted. Worth re-scanning in 2–3 weeks.
Symmetry index0.91
Range of motion (hind)−6%
Cadence112 spm
Stride length0.74 m
AI summary

Gait is broadly symmetric with a mild reduction in left-hind range of motion. No abrupt irregularities detected. Consider a follow-up scan to confirm the trend before discussing with your vet.

A single mobility score

One 0–100 number that rolls up the underlying metrics into something you can track at a glance.

Metric breakdown

The individual measurements — symmetry, ROM, cadence, stride, velocity — with plain-language context.

Trend over time

Re-scan and watch the score and metrics move, so a slow decline shows up before it becomes a limp.

Plain-language AI summary

A short written interpretation you can read yourself or hand to your vet — framed as screening, not diagnosis.