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. 2025 Jul 2;15:22540. doi: 10.1038/s41598-025-06164-w

Table 1.

Characteristics of 774 participants.

Characteristics Overall Bacteriological Positive * Bacteriological Negative * p value
N 774 258 516
Gender = M/F (%) 396/378 (51/49) 140/118 (54/46) 256/260 (50/50) 0.25
Age (median [IQR]) 48.3 (18) 44.7 (17) 50.1 (19) < 0.01
Age Group (%) < 0.01
15 to < 35 years 219 (28) 84 (33) 135 (26)
35 to < 55 years 249 (32) 103 (40) 146 (28)
55 years + 306 (40) 71 (28) 235 (46)
Prior TB History = Yes (%) 197 (26) 91 (35) 106 (21) < 0.01
Currently receiving treatment for TB (%) 28 (4) 23 (9) 5 (1) < 0.01
Previously treatment for TB (%) 184 (24) 79 (31) 105 (20) < 0.01
HIV Status
HIV+ (%) 142 (18) 65 (25) 77 (15) < 0.01
HIV- (%) 488 (63) 150 (58) 338 (66)
Unknown (%) 144 (19) 43 (17) 101 (20)
Any Symptoms = Yes (%) 405 (52) 110 (43) 295 (57) < 0.01
Cough > 2wks (%) 148 (19) 49 (19) 99 (19) 1
Cough (%) 258 (33) 77 (30) 181 (35) 0.16
Fever (%) 113 (15) 31 (12) 82 (16) 0.17
Night sweats (%) 178 (23) 52 (20) 126 (25) 0.20
Weight loss (%) 141 (18) 46 (18) 95 (18) 0.91
Smoking = Yes (%) 429 (56) 123 (48) 306 (60) < 0.01
Diabetes (%) 0.08
Yes 58 (8) 12 (5) 46 (9)
No 703 (91) 243 (94) 460 (89)
Unknown 12 (2) 3 (1) 9 (2)
Culture Result (%) < 0.01
Positive for MTB 189 (24) 189 (73) 0 (0)
Negative for MTB 516 (67) 57 (22) 459 (89)
Contaminated 29 (4) 8 (3) 21 (4)
Nontuberculous mycobacteria 13 (2) 0 (0) 13 (3)
Not done 27 (4) 4 (2) 23 (5)
Xpert Result (%) < 0.01
Positive 197 (26) 197 (76) 0 (0)
Trace positive 26 (3) 21 (8) 5 (1)
Negative 539 (70) 38 (15) 501 (97)
Invalid 3 (0.4) 0 (0) 3(0.6)
Not done 9 (1) 2 (1) 7 (1)
AI Reading (median [IQR])
JF CXR-2 0.38 [0.03, 0.93] 0.95 [0.82, 0.98] 0.08 [0.01, 0.62] < 0.01
Lunit 0.09 [0.01, 0.82] 0.90 [0.70, 0.96] 0.02 [0.01, 0.14] < 0.01
Nexus 0.53 [0.15, 0.84] 0.89 [0.78, 0.93] 0.25 [0.10, 0.61] < 0.01
CAD4TB 8 [1, 59] 70 [27, 91] 2 [1, 18] < 0.01
qXR 0.30 [0.05, 0.88] 0.92 [0.66, 0.97] 0.09 [0.03, 0.43] < 0.01
InferRead 0.35 [0.17, 0.71] 0.74 [0.57, 0.84] 0.24 [0.14, 0.41] < 0.01
Genki 0.07 [0.00, 0.57] 0.62 [0.35, 0.84] 0.01 [0.00, 0.17] < 0.01
XrayAME 0.08 [0.02, 0.44] 0.45 [0.08, 0.90] 0.04 [0.01, 0.17] < 0.01
ChestEye 0.10 [0.04, 0.42] 0.46 [0.19, 0.62] 0.06 [0.03, 0.14] < 0.01
Xvision 0.14 [0.08, 0.46] 0.51 [0.27, 0.62] 0.10 [0.07, 0.16] < 0.01
TiSepX-TB 0.26 [0.14, 0.51] 0.60 [0.32, 0.88] 0.19 [0.13, 0.31] < 0.01
RADIFY 0.47 [0.00, 0.60] 0.54 [0.23, 0.84] 0.43 [0.00, 0.59] < 0.01
Radiologists TB findings (%)
UK Radiologists < 0.001
Abnormality consistent with TB 323 (41.73) 203 (78.68) 120 (23.26)
Abnormality not consistent with TB 91 (11.76) 22 (8.53) 69 (13.37)
Normal 360 (46.51) 33 (12.79) 327 (63.37)
Nigerian Radiologists < 0.001
Abnormality consistent with TB 324 (41.86) 199 (77.13) 125 (24.22)
Abnormality not consistent with TB 101 (13.05) 25 (9.69) 76 (14.73%)
Normal 349 (45.09) 34 (13.18) 315 (61.05)
American Radiologists < 0.001
Abnormality consistent with TB 258 (33.33) 177 (68.60) 81 (15.70)
Abnormality not consistent with TB 252 (32.56) 61 (23.64) 191 (37.02)
Normal 264 (34.11) 20 (7.75) 244 (47.29)
Indian Radiologists < 0.001
Abnormality consistent with TB 259 (33.46) 173 (67.05) 86 (16.67)
Abnormality not consistent with TB 90 (11.63) 40 (15.50) 50 (9.69)
Normal 425 (54.91) 45 (17.44) 380 (73.64)

* “bacteriological positive” and “bacteriological negative” denote the bacteriological status determined by the composite microbiological reference standard in this study, where anyone with Mycobacterium tuberculosis detected by either Xpert Ultra and/or culture is referred to as bacteriological positive.