Tuberculosis Officers

Casualty Officers

Detection of tuberculosis using digital chest radiography: automated reading vs. interpretation by clinical officers.

SETTING A busy urban health centre in Lusaka, Zambia. OBJECTIVE To compare the accuracy of automated reading (CAD4TB) with the interpretation of digital chest radiograph (CXR) by clinical officers for the detection of tuberculosis (TB). DESIGN A retrospective analysis was performed on 161 subjects enrolled in a TB specimen bank study. CXRs were analysed using CAD4TB, which computed an image...

High sensitivity of chest radiograph reading by clinical officers in a tuberculosis prevalence survey.

BACKGROUND Chest radiographs (CXRs) are used in tuberculosis (TB) prevalence surveys to identify participants for bacteriological examination. Expert readers are rare in most African countries. In our survey, clinical officers scored CXRs of 19 216 participants once. We assessed to what extent missed CXR abnormalities affected our TB prevalence estimate. METHODS Two experts, a radiologist and...

Educating Air Force Officers

New Officers for AAAI

At IJCAI-95, Randall Davis assumed the office of president of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). Davis is a professor of electrical engineering and computer science and associate director of the AI Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Davis succeeds Barbara Grosz, Gordon McKay professor of computer science in the Division of Applied Sciences at Harva...