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Comment
. 2022 Jul:81:104078.
doi: 10.1016/j.ebiom.2022.104078. Epub 2022 May 29.

Ultrasound for point-of-care sputum-free tuberculosis detection: Building collaborative standardized image-banks

Véronique Suttels  1 , Prudence Wachinou  2 , Jacques Du Toit  3 , Noémie Boillat-Blanco  4 , Mary-Anne Hartley  5
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Ultrasound for point-of-care sputum-free tuberculosis detection: Building collaborative standardized image-banks

Véronique Suttels et al. EBioMedicine. 2022 Jul.
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Declaration of interests All authors have nothing to disclose.

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Figure 1
For research purposes, we propose a 14-point sliding-scan protocol for lung ultrasound in TB endemic regions, adding 2 views of each apex in addition to the standard 10-point protocol (sub-clavicular and latero-superior view). Of note, the probe should not be lifted between points but rather slide from point to point to ensure a complete scan. Still images and videos should be taken at each point and labelled according to position. To ensure utility in AI-CAD, images should strictly have no hard coded labels revealing the diagnosis (e.g. arrows pointing to pathologies or text) and should only be used if associated metadata (inclusion criteria, age, sex, geography, healthcare level, presenting symptoms, history and method of TB diagnosis) are provided.
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