# Development and Validation of Computational Algorithms to Assess Kidney Health in Electronic Health Records > **NIH NIH K01** · UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA · 2022 · $128,493 ## Abstract Project Summary A key aim of this proposal is to equip the candidate, Dr.Ozrazgat Baslanti, with the necessary protected time and additional training and resources to develop her skillset on quantitative methods and understanding of underlying mechanism of progression of kidney disease and facilitate her transition to an independent translational researcher in health care. The long-term career goal is to become an independent data scientist, with a focus on hospital care for acute disease and complications arising from that care. The overall objective of this application is to build the foundation of the analytical approach for identifying patients’ health trajectories during episode of acute hospitalization and quantifying the transitions in health states that can be applied to any acute illness. Our central hypothesis is that using kidney health as a paradigm for this approach we can determine individual states of change in kidney health during hospitalization using longitudinal, highly granular temporal data in electronic health records, determine transition probabilities to more severe stages of acute and chronic kidney disease, and improve understanding of the underlying processes influencing these transitions. Current diagnosis and risk evaluation for acute kidney injury (AKI) are focused on determination of severity of AKI episode and an integrated framework for assessing renal recovery does not exist. There is a clear lack of research on estimating transition probabilities among different states of kidney health through nonlinear and non-normal time- dependent domains using longitudinal electronic health records data. The complexity of underlying processes influencing the transition probabilities from renal risk to more severe stages of acute and chronic kidney disease requires application of advanced computational models in sufficiently large and granular datasets. The specific aims of the proposal are: Aim 1- Expand and validate computable phenotypes of kidney health in large-scale medical data. Aim 2- Determine the epidemiology and clinical outcomes of changes in kidney health. Aim 3- Develop and validate probabilistic graphical models to predict transition through the states of kidney health and identify risk factors for progression. The proposed research is significant as we will have phenotyping algorithms of kidney health, validated in multi-center study, that can enhance their inter-institutional sharing and that enable to study epidemiology and outcomes of changes in kidney health. The approach is innovative because it implements technological advances in data science and statistics in innovative steps to develop and validate a phenotyping algorithm that determines computable phenotypes of changes in kidney health and graphical models to predict transition through the states of kidney health through nonlinear and non-normal time- dependent domains using highly granular electronic health records. This will provide foundation for c... ## Key facts - **NIH application ID:** 10397993 - **Project number:** 5K01DK120784-03 - **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA - **Principal Investigator:** Tezcan Ozrazgat Baslanti - **Activity code:** K01 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.) - **Funding institute:** NIH - **Fiscal year:** 2022 - **Award amount:** $128,493 - **Award type:** 5 - **Project period:** 2020-05-01 → 2024-04-30 ## Primary source NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10397993 ## Citation > US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10397993, Development and Validation of Computational Algorithms to Assess Kidney Health in Electronic Health Records (5K01DK120784-03). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10397993. Licensed CC0. --- *[NIH grants dataset](/datasets/nih-grants) · CC0 1.0*