Chest Radiographic Patterns and the Transmission of Tuberculosis: Implications for Automated Systems.

BACKGROUND:Computer-aided detection to identify and diagnose pulmonary tuberculosis is being explored. While both cavitation on chest radiograph and smear-positivity on microscopy are independent risk factors for the infectiousness of pulmonary tuberculosis it is unknown which radiographic pattern,...

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Main Authors: Angela Lau, James Barrie, Christopher Winter, Abdel-Halim Elamy, Gregory Tyrrell, Richard Long
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4841548?pdf=render