Bridging the analog divide: a comparison of printed X-ray films and digital images when using computer-aided detection software for tuberculosis screening.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Computer-aided detection (CAD) software provides scalable, standardized chest X-ray (CXR) interpretation, helping address the global shortage of radiologists and inter-reader variability. Printed X-ray films remain common in many low-resource settings, yet most CAD software can only process Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) files. Genki software (DeepTek, India) is one of the few World Health Organization (WHO)-recommended CAD software capable of interpreting both DICOM files and photographs of printed X-ray films (Joint Photographic Experts Group [JPEG] files), but its performance using JPEG files has not been independently evaluated.

Methods

We evaluated Genki software using a test library of 1466 CXR images from adults screened for tubercul

SUBMITTER: Codlin AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12801687 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature