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Diabetic Retinopathy is a global health problem, influences 100 million individuals worldwide, and in the next few decades, these incidences are expected to reach epidemic proportions. Diabetic Retinopathy is a subtle eye disease that can…

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A very crucial part of Bangladeshi people's employment, GDP contribution, and mainly livelihood is agriculture. It plays a vital role in decreasing poverty and ensuring food security. Plant diseases are a serious stumbling block in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Md. Jalal Uddin Chowdhury , Zumana Islam Mou , Rezwana Afrin , Shafkat Kibria

Diagnostic tests that can detect pre-clinical or sub-clinical infection, are one of the most powerful tools in our armoury of weapons to control infectious diseases. Considerable effort has been paid to improving diagnostic testing for…

Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) is a serious microvascular complication of diabetes, and one of the leading causes of vision loss worldwide. Although automated detection and grading, with Deep Learning (DL), can reduce the burden on…

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Artificial intelligence (AI) products can be trained to recognize tuberculosis (TB)-related abnormalities on chest radiographs. Various AI products are available commercially, yet there is lack of evidence on how their performance compared…

This paper describes methodological details used by WHO in 2015 to estimate TB incidence, prevalence and mortality. Incidence and mortality are disaggregated by HIV status, age and sex. Methods to derive MDR-TB burden indicators are…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2016-03-02 Glaziou Philippe , Sismanidis Charalambos , Pretorius Carel , Floyd Katherine

The first MRI scan was done in the year 1978 by researchers at EML Laboratories. As per an estimate, approximately 251,329 people died due to primary cancerous brain and CNS (Central Nervous System) Tumors in the year 2020. It has been…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-05 Prateek A. Meshram , Suraj Joshi , Devarshi Mahajan

Tuberculosis (TB) is an airborne disease caused by the pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis. In 2023, according to the World Health Organization, it ''probably'' replaced COVID-19 as the leading cause of death from an infectious agent…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2026-04-29 James W. G. Doran , Cameron A. Smith , Christian A. Yates , Ruth Bowness

Objective: The automatic discrimination between the coughing sounds produced by patients with tuberculosis (TB) and those produced by patients with other lung ailments. Approach: We present experiments based on a dataset of 1358 forced…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-05-12 Madhurananda Pahar , Marisa Klopper , Byron Reeve , Grant Theron , Rob Warren , Thomas Niesler

Diabetes has affected over 246 million people worldwide with a majority of them being women. According to the WHO report, by 2025 this number is expected to rise to over 380 million. The disease has been named the fifth deadliest disease in…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2015-02-13 Aiswarya Iyer , S. Jeyalatha , Ronak Sumbaly

The paper presents and comparatively analyses several deep learning approaches to automatically detect tuberculosis related lesions in lung CTs, in the context of the ImageClef 2020 Tuberculosis task. Three classes of methods, different…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-10 Radu Miron , Cosmin Moisii , Mihaela Breaban

In this paper we discuss a new method for detecting leukemia in microscopic blood smear images using deep neural networks to diagnose leukemia early in blood. leukemia is considered one of the most dangerous mortality causes for a human…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-10 Abdelmageed Ahmed , Alaa Nagy , Ahmed Kamal , Daila Farghl

Agriculture plays an important role in the food and economy of Bangladesh. The rapid growth of population over the years also has increased the demand for food production. One of the major reasons behind low crop production is numerous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Hasin Rehana , Muhammad Ibrahim , Md. Haider Ali

Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) is an art and science of recording and classifying the retinal images of a diabetic patient. DR classification deals with classifying retinal fundus image into five stages on the basis of severity of diabetes. One…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Nishi Doshi , Urvi Oza , Pankaj Kumar

Background: Mycobacterium Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious bacterial disease presenting similar symptoms to pneumonia; therefore, differentiating between TB and pneumonia is challenging. Therefore, the main aim of this study is proposing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-07 Toktam Khatibi , Ali Farahani , Hossein Sarmadian

Lung diseases such as COVID-19, tuberculosis (TB), and pneumonia continue to be serious global health concerns that affect millions of people worldwide. In medical practice, chest X-ray examinations have emerged as the norm for diagnosing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-11 Aditya Kulkarni , Guruprasad Parasnis , Harish Balasubramanian , Vansh Jain , Anmol Chokshi , Reena Sonkusare

Despite existing for millennia, tuberculosis (TB) remains a persistent global health challenge. A significant obstacle in controlling TB spread is the need for a rapid, portable, sensitive, and accurate diagnostic test. Currently, sputum…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-01-02 Ubaid Ullah , Seerat Saleem , Muddassar Farooq , Basit Yameen , M. Imran Cheema

Tuberculosis (TB) continues to pose a major public health challenge, particularly in high-burden regions such as Ethiopia, necessitating a more profound understanding of its transmission dynamics. In this study, we developed an SVEITRS…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2025-06-26 Moksina Seyid , Abdu Mohammed Seid , Yassin Tesfaw Abebe

Crop diseases are a major threat to food security, but their rapid identification remains difficult in many parts of the world due to the lack of the necessary infrastructure. The combination of increasing global smartphone penetration and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-18 Sharada Prasanna Mohanty , David Hughes , Marcel Salathe

Background and objective: Diabetes is a chronic pathology which is affecting more and more people over the years. It gives rise to a large number of deaths each year. Furthermore, many people living with the disease do not realize the…