Biography
Megan Palmer is a South African paediatrician working at the Desmond Tutu TB Centre at Stellenbosch University in Cape Town, South Africa. She has worked in the field of paediatric TB diagnostics and therapeutics for 12 years. Megan has specific experience with the design and implementation of treatment-shortening trials and pharmacokinetic trials in children. Megan’s research focus areas include the optimisation of approaches to disease severity stratification and the use of imaging in the management of paediatric TB.
Key Impacts
The performance of CAD4TB to distinguish radiological TB from not-TB in a paediatric population in South Africa
This analysis provides the first external validation of the CAD4pTB model. The improved performance of the CAD4pTB model compared to the other CAD4TB models, after retraining with a small paediatric CXR set, is promising for the success of future paediatric CAD development.
Source: Conference 2024
Performance of available CAD algorithms for identifying TB in children and adolescents: Results from the CAPTURE Consortium multi-country CXR dataset
Impact details available upon request.
Source: Conference 2024