Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the most common causes of death by an infectious agent,1 with an estimated nine million new cases appearing every year. About one-third of the world’s population is infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterial strain that causes the majority of cases. TB is most prevalent in sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia, where widespread poverty and malnutrition r...

A system that automatically detects textural abnormalities in medical images will usually require three steps: 1) segmentation, that allows the selection of corresponding regions of interest; 2) texture feature extraction for each region of interest; 3) classification of regions, using the texture features and the ground truth from a training database. After classifying regions in the image, an...