NephroCAGE—German-Canadian Consortium on AI for Improved Kidney Transplantation Outcome: Protocol for an Algorithm Development and Validation Study

Matthieu-P Schapranow   ¹ , BSc, MSc, PhD ;   Mozhgan Bayat   ¹ , PhD ;   Aadil Rasheed   ¹ , MSc ;   Marcel Naik   ² , MD ;   Verena Graf   ³ , BSc ;   Danilo Schmidt   ³ , MSc ;   Klemens Budde   ² , MD, PhD ;   Héloïse Cardinal   ⁴ , MD, PhD ;   Ruth Sapir-Pichhadze   ⁵ , BMedSci, MD, MSc, PhD ;   Franz Fenninger   ⁶ , PhD ;   Karen Sherwood   ⁶ , BSc, PhD ;   Paul Keown   ⁶ , MD, MBA, PhD ;   Oliver P Günther   ⁷ , PhD ;   Konstantin D Pandl   ⁸ , MSc ;   Florian Leiser   ⁸ , MSc ;   Scott Thiebes   ⁸ , PhD ;   Ali Sunyaev   ⁸ , PhD ;   Matthias Niemann   ⁹ , MSc ;   Andreas Schimanski   ⁹ , Dipl.-Wirt.-Inf. ;   Thomas Klein   ¹⁰ , MA

¹ Hasso Plattner Institute for Digital Engineering, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany

² Department of Nephrology and Medical Intensive Care, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

³ Geschäftsbereich IT, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

⁴ Research Centre, Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada

⁵ Division of Nephrology and Multi-Organ Transplant Program, Department of Medicine and Centre for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montréal, QC, Canada

⁶ Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

⁷ Günther Analytics, Vancouver, BC, Canada

⁸ Department of Economics and Management, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany

⁹ PIRCHE AG, Research and Development, Berlin, Germany

¹⁰ PIRCHE AG, Berlin, Germany