ArticleTropical medicine and infectious disease2021
Early Evaluation of an Ultra-Portable X-ray System for Tuberculosis Active Case Finding.
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- Resources to implement general population mobile chest x-ray screening for tuberculosis in Uganda: A trial-based costing analysis.PLOS global public health · 2026Article
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- Personnel time requirements for mobile chest X-ray screening for TB.IJTLD open · 2025Article
- Evaluation of an ultra-portable X-ray system with automated interpretation for tuberculosis active case finding in carceral settings: a diagnostic test accuracy study.Research square · 2025Article
- Comparison of different Lunit INSIGHT CXR software versions when reading chest radiographs for tuberculosis.PLOS digital health · 2025Article
- Operational feasibility of the ultra-portable digital X-rays with Computer-Aided Detection (CAD) for community active case finding for TB in Nigeria: Health care workers and client's perspectives.PLOS global public health · 2025Article
- Assessment of scattered and leakage radiation from ultra-portable X-ray systems in chest imaging: An independent study.PLOS global public health · 2025Article
- Impact of the use of the ultra-portable digital x-ray with CAD4TB for active case finding for tuberculosis in Nigeria.Frontiers in digital health · 2025Article
- Tuberculosis treatment outcomes and associated factors: A retrospective study in West Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia.Narra J · 2024Article
- A mixed-methods study on impact of active case finding on pulmonary tuberculosis treatment outcomes in India.Archives of public health = Archives belges de sante publique · 2024Article
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- Comparing tuberculosis symptom screening to chest X-ray with artificial intelligence in an active case finding campaign in Northeast Nigeria.BMC global and public health · 2023Article
- A paradigm shift in point-of-care imaging in low-income and middle-income countries.EClinicalMedicine · 2023Review
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Abstract
X-ray screening is an important tool in tuberculosis (TB) prevention and care, but access has historically been restricted by its immobile nature. As recent advancements have improved the portability of modern X-ray systems, this study represents an early evaluation of the safety, image quality and yield of using an ultra-portable X-ray system for active case finding (ACF). We reported operational and radiological performance characteristics and compared image quality between the ultra-portable and two reference systems. Image quality was rated by three human readers and by an artificial intelligence (AI) software. We deployed the ultra-portable X-ray alongside the reference system for community-based ACF and described TB care cascades for each system. The ultra-portable system operated within advertised specifications and radiologic tolerances, except on X-ray capture capacity, which was 58% lower than the reported maximum of 100 exposures per charge. The mean image quality rating from radiologists for the ultra-portable system was significantly lower than the reference (3.71 vs. 3.99,
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