Ayman Khallel Al-Ani

Based on the literature findings, none of these nations uses ML to forecast the annual maintenance budgets. For example, life cycle cost estimation is applied in Saudi Arabia. A life cycle cost analysis in decision-making is based on total expenses rather than a device’s initial purchase price [42]. In Turkey, they categorize medical devices into technological development groups such as low, medium, high and simple technology groups to determine the ratio for cost expenditure [43].