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@arXiv_csCV_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-09-11 09:04:13

RepViT-CXR: A Channel Replication Strategy for Vision Transformers in Chest X-ray Tuberculosis and Pneumonia Classification
Faisal Ahmed
arxiv.org/abs/2509.08234

RepViT-CXR: A Channel Replication Strategy for Vision Transformers in Chest X-ray Tuberculosis and Pneumonia Classification
Chest X-ray (CXR) imaging remains one of the most widely used diagnostic tools for detecting pulmonary diseases such as tuberculosis (TB) and pneumonia. Recent advances in deep learning, particularly Vision Transformers (ViTs), have shown strong potential for automated medical image analysis. However, most ViT architectures are pretrained on natural images and require three-channel inputs, while CXR scans are inherently grayscale. To address this gap, we propose RepViT-CXR, a channel replicatio…

@DiverDoc@mstdn.ca
2025-09-11 21:03:14

Experts warn loss of USAID endangers the fight against deadly TB:
cidrap.umn.edu/tuberculosis/ex

@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz
2025-08-19 11:22:35
Content warning: tuberculosis/neglect, USA

47's government being a menace to the whole world again. Tuberculosis in prisons means tuberculosis everywhere.
"Detainees have tested positive for tuberculosis at the Anchorage Correctional Complex in Alaska and Adelanto ICE Processing Center in California, according to news reports. ...
"Tuberculosis thrives in carceral settings of all kinds. It spreads through the air when an infected person coughs, sneezes, or spits, and it only takes a few droplets to sicken someone. ...
"Almost everyone who contracts it needs treatment to survive, and those who do may live with lungs so damaged they struggle to breathe. ...
"Anyone in ICE custody with symptoms suggestive of tuberculosis is supposed to be placed into an airborne infection isolation room with negative pressure ventilation ...
"But ICE detention facilities don’t necessarily have such rooms ... The typical solitary cell does not use negative pressure, detention and medical researchers said. ...
"Experts expect the situation to get much worse in the months ahead. That’s because Trump’s drive to deport one million people hasn’t yet coincided with the height of flu season, or the GOP’s recent cuts to the health care system, or its exclusion of undocumented immigrants from several social programs."
- Whitney Curry Wimbish, The American Prospect
#tuberculosis #USA #USPol

@outer@mas.to
2025-08-21 23:52:25

"Everything is Tuberculosis" by John Green is a 2025 non-fiction book everyone should read.
Tuberculosis kills more people each year, once again, than any other disease. Now that
John was a chaplain at a children's hospital before he became famous, after he and his brother Hank Green invented vlogging. This is his second non-fiction book. Everything he writes is GREAT.
#BookRecommendations

@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz
2025-08-19 11:28:03
Content warning: multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis

As with covid, you don't want to give TB the chance to evolve, either. There already is a multiple-drug-resistant strand of TB (or more than one, probably - I'm not up on the details). I remember reading a book about it, Tracy Kidder's book about Dr Paul Farmer.
#tuberculosis #MDRTB #books

@servelan@newsie.social
2025-07-16 05:51:05

Inhaled tuberculosis vaccine effective against world's deadliest infectious disease - ABC News
abc.net.au/news/2025-07-16/tub

@arXiv_mathAP_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-06-23 11:12:00

Boundedness and asymptotic stability of classical solutions to a model for tuberculosis granuloma formation
Masaaki Mizukami, Yuya Tanaka
arxiv.org/abs/2506.16752

Boundedness and asymptotic stability of classical solutions to a model for tuberculosis granuloma formation
This paper deals with a problem which describes tuberculosis granuloma formation \begin{align*} \begin{cases} u_t = Δu - \nabla \cdot (u \nabla v) - uv - u + β, &x \in Ω,\ t>0, \\ v_t = Δv + v -uv + μw, &x \in Ω,\ t>0, \\ w_t = Δw + uv - wz - w, &x \in Ω,\ t>0, \\ z_t = Δz - \nabla \cdot (z \nabla w) + f(w)z -z, &x \in Ω,\ t>0 \end{cases} \end{align*} under homogeneous Neumann boundary conditions and initial conditions, where $Ω\subset \mathbb{R}^n$ ($n\ge 2$) is a smooth bounded …

@arXiv_qbioPE_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-06-26 08:17:40

Modeling Transmission Dynamics of Tuberculosis: Parameter Estimation and Sensitivity Analysis Using Real-World Data
Moksina Seyid, Abdu Mohammed Seid, Yassin Tesfaw Abebe
arxiv.org/abs/2506.19869

Modeling Transmission Dynamics of Tuberculosis: Parameter Estimation and Sensitivity Analysis Using Real-World Data
Tuberculosis (TB) continues to pose a major public health challenge, particularly in high-burden regions such as Ethiopia, necessitating a more profound understanding of its transmission dynamics. In this study, we developed an SVEITRS compartmental model to investigate the transmission dynamics of TBs, utilizing real data from Ethiopia from 2011-2021. Model parameters were estimated via two methods: nonlinear least squares and maximum likelihood, with maximum likelihood providing more accurate…

@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it
2025-08-19 05:16:42

literal death camps assemblag.es/@inquiline/115053

inquiline (@inquiline@assemblag.es)
A horror in its own right and more horror in the making: TB is spreading in ICE detention centers https://prospect.org/health/2025-08-18-tuberculosis-spawning-in-crowded-dirty-ice-detention-centers/ #ICE #uspol

@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz
2025-08-19 11:26:14
Content warning: tuberculosis, UK (death)

I knew someone whose Dad died of TB. This would've been about 20-odd years ago. He caught it on holiday, and when he came back to the UK, doctors didn't twig at first what it was. And then it was too late.
#tuberculosis #UK

@Treppenwitz@sfba.social
2025-08-01 14:04:58

Never forget what the world's richest man did to the world's poorest people! (Source: bu.edu/sph/news/articles/2025/)

USAID cuts are killing 88 people /hr

Tracking Anticipated Deaths from USAID Funding Cuts
Brooke Nichols has launched online tracking tools that capture estimated increases in mortality and disease spread for HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and other diseases as a result of the near-total freeze in US foreign aid funding and programming.

@primonatura@mstdn.social
2025-09-07 17:00:35

"Labour could end badger cull but only with Covid-style testing and vaccines – report"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Badgers #Animals

Labour could end badger cull but only with Covid-style testing and vaccines – report
Review says ministers have only ‘small chance’ of wiping out bovine tuberculosis by 2038 without more investment