Bringing foundational models to the front lines of TB screening
Efforts to address the severe problem of tuberculosis by transitioning from research benchmarks to open foundation models for point-of-care deployment.
Key points
- •Tuberculosis claims an estimated 1.23 million lives annually, making it one of the world's deadliest infectious diseases.
- •Despite global investment, many cases remain undetected in communities with the highest burden.
- •Over the past five years, the focus has shifted from early research benchmarks to open foundation models that can be tuned and deployed at the point of care.