Algorithm may help avoid 40% of kidney transplant rejection misdiagnoses: study

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By Nick Paul Taylor

Dive Brief:

  • An algorithm could help pathologists avoid 40% of misdiagnoses of organ transplant rejection and improve patient risk stratification, according to a paper published in Nature Medicine.
  • The decision-support system automatically diagnoses the status of kidney transplants based on the criteria physicians use to determine if a patient is rejecting an organ. Applied to two clinical trials, the algorithm reclassified rejection diagnoses made by pathologists.
    Read the full article in MedTech Dive.
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