Published on in Vol 11 (2025)

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/68355, first published .
Analyzing Satellite Imagery to Target Tuberculosis Control Interventions in Densely Urbanized Areas of Kigali, Rwanda: Cross-Sectional Pilot Study

Analyzing Satellite Imagery to Target Tuberculosis Control Interventions in Densely Urbanized Areas of Kigali, Rwanda: Cross-Sectional Pilot Study

Analyzing Satellite Imagery to Target Tuberculosis Control Interventions in Densely Urbanized Areas of Kigali, Rwanda: Cross-Sectional Pilot Study

Mauro Faccin   1, 2 , PhD ;   Caspar Geenen   3 , MD ;   Michiel Happaerts   3, 4 , MD ;   Sien Ombelet   3, 5 * , MD, PhD ;   Patrick Migambi   6 * , MD ;   Emmanuel André   3, 5 * , MD, PhD

1 Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

2 Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bologna, Bologna, Italy

3 Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Transplantation, Laboratory of Clinical Microbiology, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

4 Department of General Internal Medicine, University Hospital Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

5 Department of Laboratory Medicine, University Hospital Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

6 Tuberculosis and Other Respiratory Disease Division, Department of HIV/AIDS Diseases Prevention and Control, Rwanda Biomedical Center, Kigali, Rwanda

*these authors contributed equally

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