Inside Precision Medicine October 23, 2024
An artificial intelligence (AI)-based tool developed at the University of Coventry in the U.K. can help enhance decision making about kidney transplants by providing information about likely outcomes.
Making the decision about who will receive an organ from a deceased donor is always a difficult one, as many people need donor organs and there are a number of factors that influence the outcome of organ transplantation.
Writing in the journal Renal Failure, the study authors explain that “prior models for predicting outcomes in organ transplantation have limited discriminative and calibration power, highlighting a need for improved prediction tools that can better guide clinical decision-making.”
The study tested different AI-based models to assess how accurate they were at predicting outcomes of...