The intersecting pandemics of tuberculosis and COVID-19: population-level and patient-level impact, clinical presentation, and corrective interventions

K Dheda, T Perumal, H Moultrie, R Perumal… - The Lancet …, 2022 - thelancet.com
The global tuberculosis burden remains substantial, with more than 10 million people newly
ill per year. Nevertheless, tuberculosis incidence has slowly declined over the past decade …

Independent evaluation of 12 artificial intelligence solutions for the detection of tuberculosis

AJ Codlin, TP Dao, LNQ Vo, RJ Forse, V Van Truong… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
There have been few independent evaluations of computer-aided detection (CAD) software
for tuberculosis (TB) screening, despite the rapidly expanding array of available CAD …

Estimating the contribution of subclinical tuberculosis disease to transmission: An individual patient data analysis from prevalence surveys

JC Emery, PJ Dodd, S Banu, B Frascella, FL Garden… - Elife, 2023 - elifesciences.org
Background: Individuals with bacteriologically confirmed pulmonary tuberculosis (TB)
disease who do not report symptoms (subclinical TB) represent around half of all prevalent …

The rise of artificial intelligence reading of chest X-rays for enhanced TB diagnosis and elimination

C Geric, ZZ Qin, CM Denkinger, SV Kik… - … of Tuberculosis and …, 2023 - ingentaconnect.com
We provide an overview of the latest evidence on computer-aided detection (CAD) software
for automated interpretation of chest radiographs (CXRs) for TB detection. CAD is a useful …

eHealth in TB clinical management

I Margineanu, C Louka, O Akkerman… - … of Tuberculosis and …, 2022 - ingentaconnect.com
BACKGROUND: The constant expansion of internet and mobile technologies has created
new opportunities in the field of eHealth, or the digital delivery of healthcare services. This …

An evaluation of programmatic community-based chest X-ray screening for tuberculosis in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

LH Nguyen, AJ Codlin, LNQ Vo, T Dao, D Tran… - Tropical medicine and …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Across Asia, a large proportion of people with tuberculosis (TB) do not report symptoms,
have mild symptoms or only experience symptoms for a short duration. These individuals …

A spatial analysis of TB cases and abnormal X-rays detected through active case-finding in Karachi, Pakistan

SMA Zaidi, WZ Jamal, C Mergenthaler, KS Azeemi… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Tuberculosis (TB) is the leading cause of avoidable deaths from an infectious disease
globally and a large of number of people who develop TB each year remain undiagnosed …

Computer-Aided Detection for Chest Radiography to Improve the Quality of Tuberculosis Diagnosis in Vietnam's District Health Facilities: An Implementation Study

AL Innes, A Martinez, X Gao, N Dinh, GL Hoang… - Tropical Medicine and …, 2023 - mdpi.com
In Vietnam, chest radiography (CXR) is used to refer people for GeneXpert (Xpert) testing to
diagnose tuberculosis (TB), demonstrating high yield for TB but a wide range of CXR …

Identifying barriers and facilitators to implementation of community-based tuberculosis active case finding with mobile X-ray units in Lima, Peru: a RE-AIM evaluation

CM Yuen, D Puma, AK Millones, JT Galea, C Tzelios… - BMJ open, 2021 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objectives Identify barriers and facilitators to integrating community tuberculosis screening
with mobile X-ray units into a health system. Methods Reach, effectiveness, adoption …

[HTML][HTML] Diagnostic accuracy of computer aided reading of chest x-ray in screening for pulmonary tuberculosis in comparison with Gene-Xpert

T Nishtar, S Burki, FS Ahmad… - Pakistan Journal of Medical …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Methods: The study was conducted by Radiology Department Lady Reading Hospital
Peshawar in affiliation with Indus Hospital network over a period of one year. Screening was …