Skip to main content

Main menu

  • Home
  • Current issue
  • ERJ Early View
  • Past issues
  • Authors/reviewers
    • Instructions for authors
    • Submit a manuscript
    • Open access
    • COVID-19 submission information
    • Peer reviewer login
  • Alerts
  • Podcasts
  • Subscriptions
  • ERS Publications
    • European Respiratory Journal
    • ERJ Open Research
    • European Respiratory Review
    • Breathe
    • ERS Books
    • ERS publications home

User menu

  • Log in
  • Subscribe
  • Contact Us
  • My Cart

Search

  • Advanced search
  • ERS Publications
    • European Respiratory Journal
    • ERJ Open Research
    • European Respiratory Review
    • Breathe
    • ERS Books
    • ERS publications home

Login

European Respiratory Society

Advanced Search

  • Home
  • Current issue
  • ERJ Early View
  • Past issues
  • Authors/reviewers
    • Instructions for authors
    • Submit a manuscript
    • Open access
    • COVID-19 submission information
    • Peer reviewer login
  • Alerts
  • Podcasts
  • Subscriptions

Human reading versus computer-automated reading of chest radiographs in a tuberculosis screening programme in Romania

Gerard de Vries, Dan Gainaru, Sytze Keizer, Beatrice Mahler, Ileana Radulescu, Marina Zamfirescu, Ibrahim Abubakar
European Respiratory Journal 2021 58: 2004628; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.04628-2020
Gerard de Vries
1KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation, The Hague, The Netherlands
2National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands
  • Find this author on Google Scholar
  • Find this author on PubMed
  • Search for this author on this site
  • ORCID record for Gerard de Vries
  • For correspondence: gerard.de.vries@rivm.nl)
Dan Gainaru
3Marius Nasta Institute of Pneumology, Bucharest, Romania
  • Find this author on Google Scholar
  • Find this author on PubMed
  • Search for this author on this site
Sytze Keizer
4Castricum, The Netherlands
  • Find this author on Google Scholar
  • Find this author on PubMed
  • Search for this author on this site
Beatrice Mahler
3Marius Nasta Institute of Pneumology, Bucharest, Romania
  • Find this author on Google Scholar
  • Find this author on PubMed
  • Search for this author on this site
Ileana Radulescu
3Marius Nasta Institute of Pneumology, Bucharest, Romania
  • Find this author on Google Scholar
  • Find this author on PubMed
  • Search for this author on this site
Marina Zamfirescu
5Audifon Medical Centre, Bucharest, Romania
  • Find this author on Google Scholar
  • Find this author on PubMed
  • Search for this author on this site
Ibrahim Abubakar
6Institute for Global Health, University College London, London, UK
  • Find this author on Google Scholar
  • Find this author on PubMed
  • Search for this author on this site
  • ORCID record for Ibrahim Abubakar
  • Article
  • Figures & Data
  • Info & Metrics
  • PDF
Loading

Extract

One of the interventions in tuberculosis (TB) control is to screen people at high risk for TB with chest radiography [1]. Chest radiography in TB screening programmes are usually read by a radiographer or a pulmonologist specialised in TB. In recent years, computer-aided detection (CAD) software has become available for automated reading of CXRs and identifying people with presumptive TB [2, 3] and for TB screening [4, 5]. A systematic review published in 2016 concluded that the evidence of diagnostic accuracy of CAD was limited by the small number of studies, co-authored by owners of the only CAD software on the market at that time, and not generalisable to low TB and HIV settings [6]. The application of CAD software for TB detection has to our knowledge not been assessed in Europe.

Abstract

Automated reading of chest radiographs in a tuberculosis screening programme can reduce human reading to less than 20% of the chest radiographs, avoiding unnecessary TB examinations while maintaining high sensitivity https://bit.ly/3kCFWmq

Acknowledgement

The authors gratefully acknowledge the E-DETECT TB (709624) project which has received funding from the European Union's Health Programme (2014–2020). The views expressed here are the authors only and are their sole responsibility; it cannot be considered to reflect the views of the European Commission and/or the Consumers, Health, Agriculture and Food Executive Agency or any other body of the EU.

Footnotes

  • Conflict of interest: G. de Vries has nothing to disclose.

  • Conflict of interest: D. Gainaru has nothing to disclose.

  • Conflict of interest: S. Keizer has nothing to disclose.

  • Conflict of interest: B. Mahler has nothing to disclose.

  • Conflict of interest: I. Radulescu has nothing to disclose.

  • Conflict of interest: M. Zamfirescu has nothing to disclose.

  • Conflict of interest: I. Abubakar reports grants from European Commission (E-DETECT TB grant co-funding to UCL from the European Commission) and UK National Institute for Health Research (SRF-2011-04-001 and NF-SI-0616-10037), during the conduct of the study.

  • Support statement: The E-DETECT TB project has received funding from the European Commission Consumers, Health, Agriculture and Food Executive Agency (grant number: 709624). I. Abubakar acknowledges support from the UK National Institute for Health Research (SRF-2011-04-001) and (NF-SI-0616-10037), and grants from European Commission to undertake the project reported in this manuscript. Delft Imaging was a co-applicant on the EU grant that supported the project which required all partners to co-fund their contribution. The company was not involved in this study. Funding information for this article has been deposited with the Crossref Funder Registry.

  • Received December 24, 2020.
  • Accepted February 24, 2021.
  • Copyright ©The authors 2021. For reproduction rights and permissions contact permissions{at}ersnet.org
https://www.ersjournals.com/user-licence
View Full Text

ERS Members

myERS - ERS members : log in with your myERS username and password.

INDIVIDUALS

Log in Login as an individual user.

Forgot your username or password?

LIBRARY USERS

Log in through your institution

If your library has a subscription, you may already be logged in via your IP address. Otherwise you may be able to log in via one of the following routes.
You may be able to gain access using your login credentials for your institution. Contact your library if you do not have a username and password.
If your organization uses OpenAthens, you can log in using your OpenAthens username and password. To check if your institution is supported, please see this list. Contact your library for more details.
If you think you should have access, please contact your librarian or email journals@ersnet.org

Purchase access

You may purchase access to this article. This will require you to create an account if you don't already have one.
PreviousNext
Back to top
View this article with LENS
Vol 58 Issue 1 Table of Contents
European Respiratory Journal: 58 (1)
  • Table of Contents
  • Index by author
Email

Thank you for your interest in spreading the word on European Respiratory Society .

NOTE: We only request your email address so that the person you are recommending the page to knows that you wanted them to see it, and that it is not junk mail. We do not capture any email address.

Enter multiple addresses on separate lines or separate them with commas.
Human reading versus computer-automated reading of chest radiographs in a tuberculosis screening programme in Romania
(Your Name) has sent you a message from European Respiratory Society
(Your Name) thought you would like to see the European Respiratory Society web site.
CAPTCHA
This question is for testing whether or not you are a human visitor and to prevent automated spam submissions.
Print
Citation Tools
Human reading versus computer-automated reading of chest radiographs in a tuberculosis screening programme in Romania
Gerard de Vries, Dan Gainaru, Sytze Keizer, Beatrice Mahler, Ileana Radulescu, Marina Zamfirescu, Ibrahim Abubakar
European Respiratory Journal Jul 2021, 58 (1) 2004628; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.04628-2020

Citation Manager Formats

  • BibTeX
  • Bookends
  • EasyBib
  • EndNote (tagged)
  • EndNote 8 (xml)
  • Medlars
  • Mendeley
  • Papers
  • RefWorks Tagged
  • Ref Manager
  • RIS
  • Zotero

Share
Human reading versus computer-automated reading of chest radiographs in a tuberculosis screening programme in Romania
Gerard de Vries, Dan Gainaru, Sytze Keizer, Beatrice Mahler, Ileana Radulescu, Marina Zamfirescu, Ibrahim Abubakar
European Respiratory Journal Jul 2021, 58 (1) 2004628; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.04628-2020
del.icio.us logo Digg logo Reddit logo Technorati logo Twitter logo CiteULike logo Connotea logo Facebook logo Google logo Mendeley logo
Full Text (PDF)

Jump To

  • Article
    • Abstract
    • Shareable PDF
    • Acknowledgement
    • Footnotes
    • References
  • Figures & Data
  • Info & Metrics
  • PDF
  • Tweet Widget
  • Facebook Like
  • Google Plus One

More in this TOC Section

Agora

  • Refined risk stratification in PAH and timing of lung transplantation
  • Outcomes of cirrhotic patients with pre-capillary pulmonary hypertension
  • Diagnosis for cystic fibrosis with new generation sweat test
Show more Agora

Research letters

  • Outcomes of cirrhotic patients with pre-capillary pulmonary hypertension
  • Diagnosis for cystic fibrosis with new generation sweat test
  • Association of blood trihalomethane concentrations with lung function
Show more Research letters

Related Articles

Navigate

  • Home
  • Current issue
  • Archive

About the ERJ

  • Journal information
  • Editorial board
  • Reviewers
  • Press
  • Permissions and reprints
  • Advertising

The European Respiratory Society

  • Society home
  • myERS
  • Privacy policy
  • Accessibility

ERS publications

  • European Respiratory Journal
  • ERJ Open Research
  • European Respiratory Review
  • Breathe
  • ERS books online
  • ERS Bookshop

Help

  • Feedback

For authors

  • Instructions for authors
  • Publication ethics and malpractice
  • Submit a manuscript

For readers

  • Alerts
  • Subjects
  • Podcasts
  • RSS

Subscriptions

  • Accessing the ERS publications

Contact us

European Respiratory Society
442 Glossop Road
Sheffield S10 2PX
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 114 2672860
Email: journals@ersnet.org

ISSN

Print ISSN:  0903-1936
Online ISSN: 1399-3003

Copyright © 2022 by the European Respiratory Society