Yichao Fan

Preoperative differentiation of spinal tuberculosis, pyogenic, and brucellar spondylitis: a multimodal machine learning study across five centers

Background Infectious spondylitis, encompassing spinal tuberculosis (STB), pyogenic spondylitis (PS), and brucellar spondylitis (BS), is difficult to diagnose preoperatively because the three entities present with overlapping clinical features. Differentiation is often delayed by prolonged culture turnaround times and...