Vision-Language Models for Acute Tuberculosis Diagnosis: A Multimodal Approach Combining Imaging and Clinical Data

Ananya Ganapthy, Praveen Shastry, Naveen Kumarasami +7

Background: This study introduces a Vision-Language Model (VLM) leveraging SIGLIP and Gemma-3b architectures for automated acute tuberculosis (TB) screening. By integrating chest X…