Dr. Lydia Nakiyingi is an infectious diseases physician and senior lecturer at Makerere University with over 10 years of experience in TB and HIV research. She leads collaborative studies, oversees TB diagnostics research, and mentors students and junior researchers. Dr. Nakiyingi has published extensively and played a key role in high-quality, GCP-compliant research, advancing TB diagnosis and care in resource-limited settings.
A simplified 4-zone lung POCUS protocol detected TB with similar accuracy to an 18-zone exam, supporting its potential as a practical triage tool. Though performance in this manually-interpreted, modest-sized dataset did not reach WHO triage test targets, it shows promise with further model development. Results highlight the need for additional training and validation datasets, and ongoing development of a POCUS computed-aided diagnosis (CAD) tool to scale-up TB case findings.
Source: Conference 2024