Biomedical Signal Processing

Ahsan Mehmood

Intern (former), Information Science Lab

IoT Biomedical Signal Processing healthcare Digital signal processing machine learning

Visiting student at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST).

First joint publication between KAUST and MBSC seeks to improve treatment options for chronic kidney disease in Saudi Arabia

1 min read · Tue, Mar 9 2021

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Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is among the most common causes of death in Saudi Arabia. According to the 2018 edition of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation’s annual Financing Global Health report, the prevalence of CKD among the Kingdom’s general population stands at 5.44% and accounts for a 4.04% mortality rate.