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

Expert Rev Anti Infect Ther. 2013;11(8):805-815. Infectious diseases are the leading cause of FUO in almost all series (Table 2). Among infections, tuberculosis is the most frequent diagnosis. In ...

Two of the diseases that can have a serious impact on lung function are Tuberculosis (TB) and Pulmonary Fibrosis. While both result in respiratory symptoms and lung injury, they are radically ...

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 ...

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 ...

Liver vessel segmentation from contrast CT images is critical in liver surgical planning and navigation. Due to the complex vessel systems, manual segmentation of liver vessel is laborious and ...

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 ...

Peritoneal tuberculosis (TB) is a rare extrapulmonary infection caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis . It is mainly found in countries with a high burden of TB, so travelling from an endemic area ...

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

Objectives To describe the association between change in body weight and sputum smear conversion and to identify factors linked with body weight and sputum smear conversion in Jimma University ...

About this study The purpose of this study is to assess the combined impact of post-processing methods that quantify potential biomarkers of chronic liver disease (AEF, fECS) and that improve iodine ...

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