Extracting hepatic vasculature from 3D imagery is important for diagnosis of liver disease and planning liver surgery. In this paper we propose to segment vessels from liver CT images using a 3D graph ...

For a population of 1000 children: • where 100 have pulmonary tuberculosis in sputum according to culture results: - 101 would be Xpert Ultra-positive, and of these, 26 (26%) would not have pulmonary ...

Abstract INTRODUCTION: Rapid and accurate tuberculosis detection is critical for improving patient diagnosis and decreasing tuberculosis transmission. Molecular assays can significantly increase ...

AI has enabled virtual screening of FDA-approved drugs against Mycobacterium tuberculosis, uncovering promising candidates like bedaquiline and delamanid that are now essential components of MDR-TB ...

Drug-resistant tuberculosis is caused by bacteria that are not killed by at least one effective antibacterial medicine (for example, isoniazid or rifampicin) used to treat tuberculosis (called drug ...

**Summary:** This review addresses the importance of quantitative computed tomography (QCT) in evaluating extrapulmonary comorbidities in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD ...

Functional liver metrics assessed using sulfur colloid (SC) single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT/CT) imaging accurately predicted overall survival (OS) and hepatotoxicity in patients with ...

Gabor schemes of image representation have shown great success in many texture related computer vision applications. This is mainly because the primitives of image representation in vision have a ...

Extrapulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB) is caused by secondary hematogenous spread of the primary infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tb.). Bacteriological evidence using traditional methods is ...