Computer-Aided Detection for Tuberculosis (CAD4TB)

A unique innovation Delft offers is the Computer-Aided Detection for Tuberculosis software (CAD4TB). CAD4TB automatically analyses a digital chest image in less than 1 minute and scores it between 0 - 100 on abnormalities consistent with TB. Additionally, a ‘heat map’ of the lungs is generated to indicate the abnormal areas (Figure 1).

Using CAD4TB, the teams can easily select those patients that have a higher likelihood of having TB. By using CAD4TB as a triage-tool to pre-select patients eligible for further testing with GeneXpert, CAD4TB greatly reduces the time and costs involved in TB screening programs

The software surpasses the performance of a trained human reader. Its performance has been validated, both from a clinical and technical perspective, in over 50 publications and references (including from WHO and StopTB Partnership). A full list of publications is available upon request.

To see what Delft CAD4TB looks like, follow/Click the link here: Delft Demo

Scroll down the page to the panel Demo Software:

Login – demo@example.com

Password – demoaccount

The image above shows the result from a normal digital X-Ray and then the scanning of the Delft CAD4TB software. the large RED mass shows higher levels of  infection for TB.

Stop TB Partnership (Publication)

In the StopTB Field Guide on Chest X-ray Screening, published on April 17th, 2019, it was stated

that  “Computer-Aided Detection for Tuberculosis (CAD4TB, distributed by Delft Imaging Systems

in the Netherlands, and CE-certified by Dutch authorities) is the most rigorously evaluated and

used AI for TB software currently available for TB

Figure 1

The following artificial has been copied by permission from Delft CAD4TB.

CAD4TB has already been successfully implemented in over 40+ countries

and supports the TB screening of more than 7+ million people globally.

The software is CE certified and various donors like Global Fund,

World Bank, EU and WHO/TB REACH have funded projects that

included CAD4TB. Consequently, CAD4TB is included in WHO’s

compendium of innovative health technologies for low-resource

settings and in the FIND/WHO pipeline for new diagnostics as

late/completed development.

Furthermore, Delft is the only company that provides

images processing of 4+ years of age.

Please see the link for more i

formation: https://www.ai4hlth.org/