Application of Artificial Intelligence to the Monitoring of Medication Adherence for Tuberculosis Treatment in Africa: Algorithm Development and Validation

Juliet Nabbuye Sekandi   ^{1, 2} , MD, MSc, DrPH ;   Weili Shi   ³ , MSc ;   Ronghang Zhu   ⁴ , MSc ;   Patrick Kaggwa   ⁵ , BSc ;   Ernest Mwebaze   ^{6, 7} , BSc, MSc, PhD ;   Sheng Li   ³ , PhD

¹ Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, College of Public Health, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States

² Global Health Institute, College of Public Health, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States

³ School of Data Science, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States

⁴ School of Computing, College of Engineering & Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States

⁵ Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

⁶ Sunbird AI, Kampala, Uganda

⁷ Artificial Intelligence Research Lab, College of Computing and Information Science, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda