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An efficient tuberculosis detection model is proposed to achieve accurate, efficient, and stable tuberculosis screening on devices with lower hardware levels. Due to the particularity of the chest X-ray images of TB patients, there are fewer labeled data, and the deep neural network model is difficult to fully train. We first analyzed the data distribution characteristics of two public TB datasets, and found that the two-stage tuberculosis identification (first divide, then classify) is insufficient. Secondly, according to the particularity of the detection image(s), the basic residual module was optimized and improved, and this is regarded as a crucial component of this article\u2019s network. Finally, an efficient attention mechanism was introduced, which was used to fuse the channel features. The network architecture was optimally designed and adjusted according to the correct and sufficient experimental content. In order to evaluate the performance of the network, it was compared with other lightweight networks under personal computer and Jetson Xavier embedded devices. The experimental results show that the recall rate and accuracy of the E-TBNet proposed in this paper are better than those of classic lightweight networks such as SqueezeNet and ShuffleNet, and it also has a shorter reasoning time. 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