Accuracy of computer-aided chest X-ray in community-based tuberculosis screening: Lessons from the 2016 Kenya National Tuberculosis Prevalence Survey

Community-based screening for tuberculosis (TB) could improve detection but is resource intensive. We set out to evaluate the accuracy of computer-aided TB screening using digital chest X-ray (CXR) to determine if this approach met target product profiles (TPP) for community-based screening. CXR ima...

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Main Authors: Brenda Mungai, Jane Ong‘angò, Chu Chang Ku, Marc Y. R. Henrion, Ben Morton, Elizabeth Joekes, Elizabeth Onyango, Richard Kiplimo, Dickson Kirathe, Enos Masini, Joseph Sitienei, Veronica Manduku, Beatrice Mugi, Stephen Bertel Squire, Peter MacPherson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2022-01-01
Series:PLOS Global Public Health
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10022380/?tool=EBI