Computer-aided reading of tuberculosis chest radiography: moving the research agenda forward to inform policy.

نویسندگان

  • Faiz Ahmad Khan
  • Tripti Pande
  • Belay Tessema
  • Rinn Song
  • Andrea Benedetti
  • Madhukar Pai
  • Knut Lönnroth
  • Claudia M Denkinger
چکیده

Affiliations: McGill International Tuberculosis Centre, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada. Respiratory Epidemiology and Clinical Research Unit, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada. FIND, Geneva, Switzerland. Dept of Medical Microbiology, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia. Division of Infectious Diseases, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA. Dept of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. Depts of Medicine and of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada. Dept of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. Global TB Programme, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • The European respiratory journal

دوره 50 1  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2017