Chandigarh, March 14 -- Haryana has deployed three artificial intelligence (AI) based tools under the National Pradhan Mantri TB Mukt Bharat Abhiyaan to strengthen tuberculosis detection, treatment and geographic planning. Additional chief secretary, health, Sumita Misra said the three-pronged AI approach would strengthen screening, patient monitoring and geographic prioritisation in TB programme. "The state government operationalised two of the three tools - Cough Against TB (CATB) and Vulnerability Mapping for Tuberculosis (VM-TB) - in February 2025. The third AI tool, Prediction of Adverse TB Outcomes (PATO), was made functional in April 2023,'' the ACS said. Misra said CATB is a mobile-based application that analyses cough sounds and symptoms to screen individuals for presumptive pulmonary tuberculosis, including in areas without internet. The tool provides frontline health workers with a fast, consistent, reliable decision-support system, enabling early identification even among individuals not presenting obvious symptoms....