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Published on in Vol 12 (2026)

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/93034, first published .
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Authors of this article:

Kurtis G Haut1 Author Orcid Image ;   Masum Hasan1 Author Orcid Image ;   Thomas Carroll2 Author Orcid Image ;   Ronald M Epstein3 Author Orcid Image ;   Taylan Sen4 Author Orcid Image ;   Ehsan Hoque1 Author Orcid Image
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Kurtis G Haut   1 * † , MSc, PhD ;   Masum Hasan   1 * , MSc, PhD ;   Thomas Carroll   2 , MD, PhD ;   Ronald M Epstein   3 , MD ;   Taylan Sen   4 , PhD ;   Ehsan Hoque   1 , PhD

1 Department of Computer Science, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, United States

2 Department of Medicine, Divisions of General Medicine and Palliative Care, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, United States

3 Departments of Family Medicine and Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, United States

4 Computer and Information Sciences, Niagara University, Niagara Falls, NY, United States

*these authors contributed equally

†deceased

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