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Nine AI-equipped portable X-ray units let Kyrgyzstan's National TB Programme screen over 10,125 people in rural, hard-to-reach areas in under a year, finding 51 new tuberculosis cases and linking them to treatment.
Of an estimated 7,900 people who contracted tuberculosis in Kyrgyzstan in 2023, around 40% were never diagnosed or notified — a gap driven partly by a scarcity of specialist radiologists able to reach remote rural communities.
Kyrgyzstan's National TB Programme, working with UNDP and financing from the Global Fund, set out to close the case-detection gap by deploying AI-assisted portable chest X-ray screening that does not depend on an on-site specialist radiologist.
The programme deployed nine InferAir ultra-portable X-ray machines fitted with Infervision's AI-based chest X-ray reading software (InferRead) in regional TB control centres and the Bishkek City TB Hospital. Because the AI system flags likely TB, pneumonia, cardiac and chronic-lung findings automatically, the lightweight units can be carried into remote rural communities, and each device can process up to roughly 300 screenings a day.
In under one year the pilot screened more than 10,125 people, identifying 51 people with tuberculosis who were then connected to treatment. Following the pilot's results, Kyrgyzstan's National TB Programme has moved to procure additional Infervision units, with further onsite deployment and staff training continuing through 2024 and 2025.
The screening and case-detection counts are independently reported by UNDP as well as by the equipment vendor, but no published third-party clinical validation of the AI's diagnostic accuracy in the Kyrgyz deployment (e.g. sensitivity/specificity against confirmed diagnoses) is yet available — a real gap given how central the AI reading step is to the whole approach.
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