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With direct implications to the future of biobanking and transplant medicine [24], cryopreservation via vitrification (vitreous in Latin means glassy) is considered to be the only promising technique for long-term preservation of large-sized tissues and organs [18,71]. With only 10% of the world...
Artificial intelligence (AI) has demonstrated promise in predicting acute kidney injury (AKI), however, clinical adoption of these models requires interpretability and transportability. Non-interoperable data across hospitals is a major barrier to model
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Background: Approximately 37 million individuals in the United States (US) have chronic kidney disease (CKD). Patients with CKD have a substantial morbidity and mortality, which contributes to a huge economic burden to the healthcare system. A limited nu