Because of AI, TB case notifications rose 80% in a tribal district of Chhattisgarh, India, including 20 confirmed cases in people with no symptoms.
+80% TB notificationsAchievedFrom Apr 2023, end not yet verifiedPublishedpublished 2 yr 9 mo after the benefit began
A prospective multi-centre study of qXR v3 chest X-ray reading found an 80.21% increase in TB notifications versus the Aug 2022–Mar 2023 baseline; of 51 asymptomatic people the AI flagged, 20 were confirmed to have TB, and over 40% of all AI-flagged patients were confirmed.
Before-and-after design in a high-burden setting; national notifications were also rising from other case-finding efforts.
- Compared with
- AI implementation period vs pre-implementation baseline (same sites)
- Effect
- +80.21% notifications (p<.001) (162 confirmed cases; 44.6% positivity among AI-flagged)
- Reach
- High-risk tribal population, Chhattisgarh
- Domain
- Medicine · Classic ML
- Conflicts
- verify: author affiliations and vendor (Qure.ai) involvement.
Sources
- primaryEvaluating AI-based chest X-ray screening for TB in tribal Chhattisgarh (PMC) (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
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verify: end date of the AI implementation period.
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“Because of AI, TB case notifications rose 80% in a tribal district of Chhattisgarh, India, including 20 confirmed cases in people with no symptoms.” Because of AI, updated Oct 22, 2026. https://becauseofai.org/entry/india-tribal-tb-ai-cxr