移动计算机辅助的数字胸部X射线查TB的代评估提高了尼日利亚的效率,产量和结果

Rupert A Eneogu1, Ellen M H Mitchell2, Chidubem Ogbudebe3

  • 1United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Abuja, Nigeria.

PLOS global public health
|January 17, 2024
PubMed
概括

车载健康 (WoW) 移动查模型通过整合数字X射线和人工智能,改善了尼日利亚的结核病例发现. 这种可适应的方法提高了结核病治疗的启动率和高风险人群的成功率.

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