About the Authors

Marianne Breuninger

marianne.breuninger@venus.uni-freiburg.de

Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, Ifakara Health Institute, Bagamoyo, United Republic of Tanzania, Center for Infectious Diseases and Travel Medicine, University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Bram van Ginneken

Affiliation Diagnostic Image Analysis Group, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Rick H. H. M. Philipsen

Affiliation Diagnostic Image Analysis Group, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Francis Mhimbira

Affiliation Ifakara Health Institute, Bagamoyo, United Republic of Tanzania

Jerry J. Hella

Affiliation Ifakara Health Institute, Bagamoyo, United Republic of Tanzania

Fred Lwilla

Affiliation Ifakara Health Institute, Bagamoyo, United Republic of Tanzania

Jan van den Hombergh

Affiliation PharmAccess International, Dar es Salaam, United Republic of Tanzania

Amanda Ross

Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Levan Jugheli

Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, Ifakara Health Institute, Bagamoyo, United Republic of Tanzania, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Dirk Wagner

Affiliation Center for Infectious Diseases and Travel Medicine, University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Klaus Reither

Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, Ifakara Health Institute, Bagamoyo, United Republic of Tanzania, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Competing Interests

Delft Imaging Systems (CAD4TBII, http://www.delftimagingsystems.com/tb-solutions/cad4tb) provided a research grant to Bram van Ginneken and Rick HHM Philipsen for the development of CAD4TB. There are no patents, further products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MB KR LJ DW JVDH FL. Performed the experiments: MB RP BVG FM JJH JVDH KR. Analyzed the data: MB AR KR LJ. Wrote the paper: MB KR AR. Critical review of the manuscript for important intellectual content: BVG RP FM JJH FL JVDH DW LJ.