India, Oct. 8 -- An artificial intelligence-based tool flagged 18,377 people for further tuberculosis testing after analysing chest X-rays of 1,68,568 residents in the national Capital's urban slums, with molecular tests subsequently confirming Tuberculosis (TB) in 877 people, according to a study.

The researchers said the tool could address a key limitation of symptom-based TB screening, since many TB cases may not present with the symptoms commonly used to identify people for testing.

The study cited National TB Prevalence Survey findings that more than 40 per cent of bacteriologically confirmed TB cases detected in that survey did not report such symptoms. Researchers from the Delhi State Health Mission, Department of Health and Fami...