Publisher Copyright: © 2024 The Author(s) We would like to acknowledge National Foundation of Science and Technology for funding this work under the projects DSAIPA/AI/0094/2020, UIDB/00667/2020 (UNIDEMI), and Lisboa-05–3559-FSE-3, and the research grant 2023.02916.BDANA. A special thanks to all the healthcare professionals from the Cardiothoracic Surgery Department of Santa Marta Hospital (Lisbon) for their in...