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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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Autores principales: Lau, Angela, Barrie, James, Winter, Christopher, Elamy, Abdel-Halim, Tyrrell, Gregory, Long, Richard
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4841548/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27105337
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0154032