Artificial intelligence is increasingly being used to improve diagnosis and prognostication for acute and chronic kidney diseases. Studies with this objective published in 2019 relied on a variety of available data sources, including electronic health records, intraoperative physiological signals, kidney ultrasound imaging, and digitized biopsy specimens.
Key advances
A deep recurrent neural network model using data from electronic health records enables the prediction of inpatient episodes of acute kidney injury (AKI) with lead times of up to 48 hours5.
Integrating intraoperative physiological signals into an AKI risk model that dynamically integrates preoperative and intraoperative data improves the prediction of postoperative AKI6.
A convolutional deep learning model enables the noninvasive classification of chronic kidney disease stage and estimated glomerular filtration rate using kidney ultrasound images8.
A convolutional neural network trained for multiclass segmentation enables automated analysis of transplant biopsy and nephrectomy samples9.
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The authors received research funding from the NIH (R21 EB027344 and R01GM110240 awarded to A.B.; R21 EB027344 and R01GM110240 awarded to P.R.) and the National Science Foundation (Career IIS 1750192 awarded to P.R.).
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The University of Florida has two pending patent applications related to some of algorithms published in the highlighted articles: Bihorac, A., Li, X., Rashidi, P., Pardalos, P., Ozrazgat-Baslanti, T., Hogan, W., Wang, D. Z., Momcilovic, P. & Lipori, G. Method and apparatus for prediction of complications after surgery. Appl. No. PCT/IB2018/053956, 1 June 2018, A&B ref. 049648/514983, UF ref.16671; Rashidi, P., Bihorac, A. & Tighe, P. J. Method and apparatus for pervasive patient monitoring. Nonprovisional Appl. No. 16/388,351, 18 April 2019, A&B ref. 049648/529839, UF ref.17317.
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Rashidi, P., Bihorac, A. Artificial intelligence approaches to improve kidney care. Nat Rev Nephrol 16, 71–72 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41581-019-0243-3
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