Empowering Tuberculosis Screening with Explainable Self-Supervised Deep Neural Networks
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Tuberculosis remains a global health crisis, disproportionately affecting resource-limited populations and remote regions, with over 10 million new infections annually. Though curable, early detection is crucial. Chest X-rays are the primary screening tool, but their use requires skilled radiologists, often unavailable in underserved areas. This highlights the need for AI-powered systems to assist in rapid screening. However, training reliable AI models requires large-scale, high-quality data, which is costly and challenging to obtain. To address this, we introduce an explainable self-supervised learning network for tuberculosis screening, achieving 98.14% accuracy, with recall and precision rates of 95.72% and 99.44%, respectively.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it