• Department of Laboratory Medicine, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan 610041, P. R. China;
YING Binwu, Email: binwuying@126.com
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Tuberculosis is one of the major infectious diseases that seriously endanger human health. Since 2014, it has surpassed human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome as the first infectious disease in patients with single pathogens. China is the third-largest country in the world in terms of high burden of tuberculosis. In 2016, there were about 900 000 new cases of tuberculosis in China. China is facing a severe tuberculosis epidemic, especially for the early diagnosis of tuberculosis and misdiagnosis of tuberculosis, which leads to delay in treatment and the spread of tuberculosis. With the application of artificial intelligence in the medical field, machine learning and deep learning methods have shown important value in the diagnosis of tuberculosis. This article will explain the application status and future development of machine learning and deep learning in the diagnosis of tuberculosis.

Citation: JIAO Lin, HU Xuejiao, YING Binwu. Optimization of tuberculosis diagnosis based on artificial intelligence strategy. West China Medical Journal, 2018, 33(8): 935-938. doi: 10.7507/1002-0179.201807067 Copy

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