Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy
Sep 23, 2016
Aminoglycosides such as amikacin continue to be part of the backbone of treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB). We measured amikacin concentrations in 28 MDR-TB patients in Botswana receiving amikacin therapy together with oral levofl...
Medical & biological engineering & computing
Mar 25, 2016
Pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) remains a worldwide public health problem. Diagnostic algorithms to identify the best combination of diagnostic tests for PTB in each setting are needed for resource optimization. We developed one artificial neural networ...
International journal of mycobacteriology
Jun 25, 2015
BACKGROUND: A concentration of specimen is recommended for the effective recovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB), but the bacteriological efficiency is not well evaluated. The present study evaluated the factors contributing to concentration eff...
This systematic review evaluates the application of machine learning (ML) models for diagnosing pulmonary tuberculosis and their potential to inform nursing practice and implementation strategies. Studies published between 2019 and 2024 were systemat...
BACKGROUND: Tuberculosis (TB) kills approximately 1.6 million people yearly despite the fact anti-TB drugs are generally curative. Therefore, TB-case detection and monitoring of therapy, need a comprehensive approach. Automated radiological analysis,...
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
Apr 28, 2022
BACKGROUND: Automated radiologic analysis using computer-aided detection software (CAD) could facilitate chest X-ray (CXR) use in tuberculosis diagnosis. There is little to no evidence on the accuracy of commercially available deep learning-based CAD...
BACKGROUND: Artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms can be trained to recognise tuberculosis-related abnormalities on chest radiographs. Various AI algorithms are available commercially, yet there is little impartial evidence on how their performance...
Zhonghua jie he he hu xi za zhi = Zhonghua jiehe he huxi zazhi = Chinese journal of tuberculosis and respiratory diseases
May 12, 2021
To evaluate the clinical value of a pulmonary tuberculosis CT diagnostic model based on deep learning convolutional neural networks (CNN). From March 2017 to March 2018,a total of 1 764 patients with positive sputum for tuberculous bacterium and ha...
Journal of X-ray science and technology
Jan 1, 2020
OBJECTIVE: Diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB) in multi-slice spiral computed tomography (CT) images is a difficult task in many TB prevalent locations in which experienced radiologists are lacking. To address this difficulty, we develop an automated dete...
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
Aug 16, 2019
BACKGROUND: Detection of active pulmonary tuberculosis on chest radiographs (CRs) is critical for the diagnosis and screening of tuberculosis. An automated system may help streamline the tuberculosis screening process and improve diagnostic performan...