Giant Granuloma Simulating Brain Tumor as Isolated Manifestation of Tuberculosis

Fischetti, Aldo; Romano, Nicola; Rutigliani, Mariangela; Feasi, Marcello; Castaldi, Antonio

doi:10.1016/j.amjms.2021.08.007

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“…1,2 TB is defined as a complex disease that is contagious and fatal, usually affecting the lungs but also affecting the lymphatics and brain. 3 Among patients with TB, children are the most under-diagnosed group, as they experience vague symptoms. 4,5 Several clinical symptoms, for example, weight loss, fever, cough and so forth occur after skeletal, miliary, and liver TB.…”

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“…Tuberculosis (TB) disease, whose gains have been reversed by the coronavirus pandemic, impairs health and is one of the most common reasons for mortality worldwide 1,2 . TB is defined as a complex disease that is contagious and fatal, usually affecting the lungs but also affecting the lymphatics and brain 3 . Among patients with TB, children are the most under‐diagnosed group, as they experience vague symptoms 4,5 .…”

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Stacked ensemble modeling for improved tuberculosis treatment outcome prediction in pediatric cases

Yilmaz

2024

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SummaryThe promising results of ML (machine learning) methods in various disciplines have led to the frequent use of these methods in health fields such as disease diagnosis, personalized medicine, medical image‐based diagnosis, and predicting the number of deaths and cases in a pandemic. However, a neglected area in the field of healthcare is the lack of study with ML to predict treatment outcomes for tuberculosis (TB) patients, particularly children experiencing failed treatment. This need has become more apparent as the coronavirus pandemic has reversed the gains of health institutions with TB disease, especially in children. Therefore, this article conducted a study using the stacked ensemble ML method to early predict the risk for children experiencing a failed treatment outcome of TB. To fulfill this need and determine the most appropriate technique, a two‐stage methodology was followed in this work. First, predictions were obtained by combining the information gain feature selection (IGFS) approach with a variety of single‐based ML algorithms, including logistic regression (LR), deep belief neural networks (DBN), random forest (RF), and decision tree (DT). Second, the proposed method, which includes a stacked ensemble ML technique, was used. The latter model uses LR as a meta‐learner and the aforementioned single‐based ML algorithms (DBN, LR, RF, and DT). The performance results of ML models used in the two stages were compared, and the proposed model which is the combination of the stack‐based ensemble learning model and the IGFS technique provided better ROC curves, accuracy, precision, and recall results.

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