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Area of Science:

  • Radiology
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Medical Imaging

Background:

  • Detection of active pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) on chest radiographs (CRs) is crucial for diagnosis and screening.
  • Automated systems can potentially streamline TB screening and improve diagnostic accuracy.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and validate a deep learning-based automatic detection (DLAD) algorithm for active pulmonary tuberculosis on CRs.
  • To compare the diagnostic performance of DLAD against physicians, including radiologists.

Main Methods:

  • A DLAD algorithm was trained using a large dataset of normal and active pulmonary TB CRs, annotated by radiologists.
  • Algorithm performance was validated on external multicenter datasets.
  • An observer performance test compared DLAD with 15 physicians across different specialties.

Main Results:

  • DLAD achieved high classification (0.977-1.000) and localization (0.973-1.000) performance.
  • DLAD demonstrated superior sensitivity and specificity compared to high-sensitivity and high-specificity cutoffs.
  • DLAD significantly outperformed all physician groups in both classification and localization tasks.

Conclusions:

  • The developed DLAD algorithm exhibits excellent and consistent performance in detecting active pulmonary tuberculosis on CRs.
  • DLAD surpasses the diagnostic capabilities of physicians, including thoracic radiologists, in identifying pulmonary TB on chest radiographs.