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@arXiv_csDB_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-10-14 07:34:30

Real-Time Health Analytics Using Ontology-Driven Complex Event Processing and LLM Reasoning: A Tuberculosis Case Study
Ritesh Chandra, Sonali Agarwal, Navjot Singh
arxiv.org/abs/2510.09646

Real-Time Health Analytics Using Ontology-Driven Complex Event Processing and LLM Reasoning: A Tuberculosis Case Study
Timely detection of critical health conditions remains a major challenge in public health analytics, especially in Big Data environments characterized by high volume, rapid velocity, and diverse variety of clinical data. This study presents an ontology-enabled real-time analytics framework that integrates Complex Event Processing (CEP) and Large Language Models (LLMs) to enable intelligent health event detection and semantic reasoning over heterogeneous, high-velocity health data streams. The a…

@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

@arXiv_qbioPE_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-10-13 08:21:10

Decoding Positive Selection in Mycobacterium tuberculosis with Phylogeny-Guided Graph Attention Models
Linfeng Wang, Susana Campino, Taane G. Clark, Jody E. Phelan
arxiv.org/abs/2510.08703

Decoding Positive Selection in Mycobacterium tuberculosis with Phylogeny-Guided Graph Attention Models
Positive selection drives the emergence of adaptive mutations in Mycobacterium tuberculosis, shaping drug resistance, transmissibility, and virulence. Phylogenetic trees capture evolutionary relationships among isolates and provide a natural framework for detecting such adaptive signals. We present a phylogeny-guided graph attention network (GAT) approach, introducing a method for converting SNP-annotated phylogenetic trees into graph structures suitable for neural network analysis. Using 500 M…

@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…

@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

@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-09-26 20:42:11

🐀 Land mines and tuberculosis are no match for Tanzanian 'hero rats' sniffing out danger and disease
phys.org/news/2025-09-tubercul

Land mines and tuberculosis are no match for Tanzanian 'hero rats' sniffing out danger and disease
A man lies unmoving, slumped in the rubble of a simulated earthquake, as an unlikely rescuer approaches: a rat with a backpack. Whiskers waving, the rat breezes past garbage, toppled furniture and scattered clothes to find him and pull a trigger on its pack, alerting searchers above.

@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

@arXiv_csSD_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-09-15 08:19:41

AI-enabled tuberculosis screening in a high-burden setting using cough sound analysis and speech foundation models
Ning Ma, Bahman Mirheidari, Guy J. Brown, Minyoi M. Maimbolwa, Nsala Sanjase, Solomon Chifwamba, Seke Muzazu, Monde Muyoyeta, Mary Kagujje
arxiv.org/abs/2509.09746

AI-enabled tuberculosis screening in a high-burden setting using cough sound analysis and speech foundation models
Background Artificial intelligence (AI) can detect disease-related acoustic patterns in cough sounds, offering a scalable approach to tuberculosis (TB) screening in high-burden, low-resource settings. Previous studies have been limited by small datasets, under-representation of symptomatic non-TB patients, reliance on simple models, and recordings collected under idealised conditions. Methods We enrolled 512 participants at two hospitals in Zambia, grouped as bacteriologically confirmed T…

@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

@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