Leprosy Screening Based on Artificial Intelligence: Development of a Cross-Platform App
JMIR mhealth and uhealth2021Vol. 9(4), pp. e23718–e23718
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Márcio Luís Moreira de Souza, Gabriel Ayres Lopes, Alexandre Castelo Branco, Jessica K. Fairley, Lúcia Alves de Oliveira Fraga
Abstract
The proposed app was able to recognize patterns in leprosy cases registered in the SINAN database and to classify new patients with paucibacillary or multibacillary leprosy, thereby reducing the probability of incorrect assignment by health centers. The collection and notification of data on leprosy in Brazil seem to lack specific validation to increase the quality of the data for implementations via AI. The AI models implemented in this work had satisfactory accuracy across Brazilian states and could be a complementary diagnosis tool, especially in remote areas with few specialist physicians.
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