A chest X-ray can usually detect active tuberculosis (TB) but not latent TB. In either case, you’ll need a sputum test to confirm a diagnosis. Doctors often use chest X-rays to help diagnose active ...

In some cases, chest X-rays can detect signs of heart failure, such as an enlarged heart, alongside various lung problems. These signs can indicate more serious complications. However, doctors do not ...

Of the sample chest X-rays, 669 (32.8%) had at least one target finding. The chest X-rays were assessed for three common findings: airspace disease (a chest X-ray pattern, for example, caused by ...

X-rays can help doctors identify TB infections. They look for specific characteristics in these images to make a diagnosis. TB is an infectious disease that primarily affects the lungs, although it ...

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the diagnostic performance achieved by using fully-connected small artificial neural networks (ANNs) and a simple training process, the Kim-Monte Carlo ...