Artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm-based tuberculosis (TB) screening is leading to a jump in notifications and helping identify 30-40 per cent more incidental cases that would have been left undiagnosed in India, a country with a large share of the worldwide burden of the infectious disease.
Mumbai-based startup Qure.ai, which provides AIbased solutions for medical imaging and diagnostics, and India Health Fund (IHF) have deployed one such tool for TB called aXR across 139 facilities in Ind since February 2020. Qure.ai has screened 120,031 individuals so far.
IHF, a not-for-profit organization, was set 1 as a collaborative initiative of Tata Trusts and The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
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