Variational quantum classifier-based early identification and classification of chronic kidney disease using sparse autoencoder and LASSO shrinkage 1Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Bannari Amman Institute of Technology, Erode, India 2Department of Information Systems, College of Computer and Information Sciences, Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University, Saudi Arabia 3Department of Software Engineering, Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju, Republic of Korea 4Department of...