@inproceedings{a6b62d3f787d4e3a8fa7efd668be229b,
title = "Using deceased-donor kidneys to initiate chains of living donor kidney paired donations: Algorithms and experimentation.",
abstract = "We design a flexible algorithm that exploits deceased donor kidneys to initiate chains of living donor kidney paired donations, combining deceased and living donor allocation mechanisms to improve the quantity and quality of kidney transplants. The advantages of this approach have been measured using retrospective data on the pool of donor/recipient incompatible and desensitized pairs at the Padua University Hospital, the largest center for living donor kidney transplants in Italy. The experiments show a remarkable improvement on the number of patients with incompatible donor who could be transplanted, a decrease in the number of desensitization procedures, and an increase in the number of UT patients (that is, patients unlikely to be transplanted for immunological reasons) in the waiting list who could receive an organ.",
keywords = "Kidneys exchange, Matching",
author = "Cristina Cornelio and Antonio Nicol{\`o} and Lucrezia Furian and Francesca Rossi",
year = "2019",
month = jan,
day = "27",
doi = "10.1145/3306618.3314276",
language = "English",
series = "AIES 2019 - Proceedings of the 2019 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery",
pages = "477--483",
booktitle = "AIES 2019 - Proceedings of the 2019 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society",
address = "United States",
note = "2nd AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society, AIES 2019 ; Conference date: 27-01-2019 Through 28-01-2019",
}