Graft failure in kidney transplants

Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1111/petr.70043
ObjectiveTo identify risk factors for chronic rejection-caused graft failure 15 years post-transplant
AI ApproachLogistic regression, k-nearest Neighbors, SVM, Decision Tree, ANN, RF
Data Source(s)National Standard Transplant Analysis and Research (STAR) dataset (6604 patients)
Model Input19 features, including proximity of most and least recent serum crossmatch test, time on waiting list, recipient weight, proximity of first dialysis, recipient height, cold ischemia time, recipient age at listing
Model OutcomeGraft survival at 15 years
Model MetricsAUC 0.81, accuracy 74%
Model UsabilityDataset is available upon request

AI = Artificial intelligence, AUC = Area under the receiver operator characteristic

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