feat: HUMSIG-37: Enhancing ML backend connection experience

[bmartel]

PR fulfills these requirements

• Commit message(s) and PR title follows the format [fix|feat|ci|chore|doc]: TICKET-ID: Short description of change made ex. fix: DEV-XXXX: Removed inconsistent code usage causing intermittent errors
• Tests for the changes have been added/updated (for bug fixes/features)
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• Self-reviewed and ran all changes on a local instance (for bug fixes/features)

Change has impacts in these area(s)

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• Product design
• Frontend

Describe the reason for change

This PR is supporting the work to transition the ML Backend to a more Model driven narrative. These changes were pulled from the original PR opened in LSO.