Sharma, Ritik
Dutt, Varun
Sharma, Shivani
Kumar, Yashwant
Bhavsar, Arnav
Kanwar, Vikrant
Kumar, Bhupender
Funding for this research was provided by:
IIT Mandi iHub and HCI Foundation (IITM_iHub & HCIF-IIT Mandi/VD/412)
Article History
Received: 4 November 2025
Accepted: 4 March 2026
First Online: 9 April 2026
Declarations
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: This study was conducted in accordance with ethical principles contained in the Declaration of Helsinki and its amendments. Ethical approval was obtained from the Institutional Ethics Committee (Human), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Mandi (Ref No.: IITM/IEC(H)/2023/VD/P5 ) for the entire duration. It has been said that information on clinical samples will be collected in accordance with best practice, confidentiality, and institutional ethical guidelines.
: All procedures involving human participants were performed in accordance with the institutional ethical guidelines and the Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments. Written informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.
: All participants provided written informed consent for the use of their anonymised data for research and publishing. The manuscript does not contain any person’s identifiable information or images; therefore, consent to publish is not applicable.
: The authors declare no Conflict of interest.