Chest X-Ray–Based Telemedicine Platform for Pediatric Tuberculosis Diagnosis in Low-Resource Settings: Development and Validation Study

Juan J Gómez-Valverde   ^{1, 2} , PhD ;   Ramón Sánchez-Jacob   ³ , MD ;   José Luis Ribó   ⁴ , MD ;   H Simon Schaaf   ⁵ , MD, PhD ;   Lara García Delgado   ¹ , MSc ;   Alicia Hernanz-Lobo   ^{6, 7, 8, 9} , MD ;   Daniel Capellán-Martín   ¹ , MSc ;   Ángel Lancharro   ^{10, 11} , MD ;   Orvalho Augusto   ^{12, 13} , MD, MPH ;   Alberto L García-Basteiro   ^{8, 12, 14} , PhD ;   Begoña Santiago-García   ^{6, 7, 8} , MD, PhD ;   Elisa López-Varela   ^{12, 14} , MD, PhD ;   María J Ledesma-Carbayo   ^{1, 2} , PhD

¹ Biomedical Image Technologies, ETSI Telecomunicación, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

² Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Bioingeniería, Biomateriales y Nanomedicina (CIBER-BBN), Madrid, Spain

³ Department of Radiology, Children’s National Hospital & George Washington University School of Medicine, Washington, DC, United States

⁴ Hospital Universitari General de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

⁵ Desmond Tutu TB Centre, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa

⁶ Pediatric Infectious Diseases Department, Gregorio Marañón University Hospital, Madrid, Spain

⁷ Gregorio Marañón Research Health Institute (IiSGM), Madrid, Spain

⁸ Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Infecciosas (CIBERINFEC), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain

⁹ RITIP Translational Research Network in Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Madrid, Spain

¹⁰ Radiología Pediátrica Hospital Materno Infantil Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain

¹¹ Radiología Pediátrica. HM Hospitales, Madrid, Spain

¹² Centro de Investigacão em Saúde de Manhiça (CISM), Maputo, Mozambique

¹³ Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States

¹⁴ ISGlobal, Hospital Clínic, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain