Forecasting Waitlist Trajectories for Patients With Metabolic Dysfunction–Associated Steatohepatitis Cirrhosis: A Neural Network Competing Risk Analysis

Gopika Punchhi   ^{1, 2 *} , MD ;   Yingji Sun   ^{2 *} , MSc ;   Eunice Tan   ^{2, 3, 4} , MD ;   Naomi Khaing Than Hlaing   ² , MD ;   Chang Liu   ⁵ , BMATH ;   Sumeet Asrani   ⁶ , MD ;   Sirisha Rambhatla   ⁷ , PhD ;   Mamatha Bhat   ^{2, 8} , MSc, MD, PhD

¹ Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western University, London, ON, Canada

² Ajmera Transplant Centre, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada

³ Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, National University Hospital, Singapore, Singapore

⁴ Department of Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

⁵ Systems Design Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada

⁶ Division of Hepatology, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United States

⁷ Department of Management Sciences, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada

⁸ Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

*these authors contributed equally