International journal of mycobacteriology
39277898
BACKGROUND: The number of tuberculosis (TB)-related morbidities and mortalities is still high in the South-east Asian region. This study was performed to characterize and visualize the post-coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) TB research in South Asi...
Studies in health technology and informatics
39176923
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to "bridge the gap" between healthcare provider and patient needs in low-resource settings to deliver timely, personalized, and empathetic care to individuals with active tuberculosis.
TB/HIV coinfection poses a complex public health challenge. Accurate forecasting of future trends is essential for efficient resource allocation and intervention strategy development. This study compares classical statistical and machine learning mod...
Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease
39146634
Tuberculosis (T.B.) remains a prominent global cause of health challenges and death, exacerbated by drug-resistant strains such as multidrug-resistant tuberculosis MDR-TB and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis XDR-TB. For an effective disease ma...
Tuberculosis (TB) caused by the bacteria Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tb), continues to pose a significant worldwide health threat. The advent of drug-resistant strains of the disease highlights the critical need for novel treatments. The unique ce...
Medical & biological engineering & computing
39264568
Deep learning is a transformative force in the medical field and it has made significant progress as a pivotal alternative to conventional manual testing methods. Detection of Tubercle Bacilli in sputum samples is faced with the problems of complex b...
This work proposes a novel technique called Enhanced JAYA (EJAYA) assisted Q-Learning for the classification of pulmonary diseases, such as pneumonia and tuberculosis (TB) sub-classes using chest x-ray images. The work introduces Fuzzy lattices forma...
Tuberculosis (TB), the second leading infectious killer globally, claimed the lives of 1.3 million individuals in 2022, after COVID-19, surpassing the toll of HIV and AIDS. With an estimated 10.6 million new TB cases worldwide in 2022, the gravity of...
OBJECTIVE: The asymptomatic nature of tuberculosis (TB) during its latent phase, combined with limitations in current diagnostic methods, makes accurate diagnosis challenging. This study aims to identify TB diagnostic biomarkers by integrating gene e...