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First Online: 6 November 2024

Competing Interests

: V.F. has received educational grants, fees for lectures and speeches, fees for professional consultation and research and study funds from Abbott, Abiomed, Berlin Heart, Biotronik, Boston Scientific, CryoLife, Edwards Lifesciences, LivaNova, Medtronic, Novartis and Zurich Heart. H.A. has received institutional grants from Bayer, Canon, Guerbet and Siemens and is presently part of the speaker’s bureau for Siemens. I.I. has received institutional research grants from Esaote and Pie Medical Imaging. She has also received an institutional research grant funded by the Dutch Technology Foundation together with Pie Medical Imaging BV and Philips Healthcare and is coinventor on patents (US 10,176,575 B2; US 10,395,366 B2; US 11,004,198 B2; US 10,699,407 B2) and patent applications (17317746, 16911323) on the detection of functionally significant coronary stenosis. P.M.-H. is a shareholder of Neumann Medical. K.M.C. is a cofounder and shareholder in Caristo Diagnostics, a University of Oxford spin-out company involved in medical imaging. R.M. has received speaker fees from Bayer and Siemens. M.S. has received nonmonetary research support from Siemens Healthineers. A.C.’s spouse is employed by GE Healthcare. D.D. has received software royalties from Cedars–Sinai Medical Center. F.G.M. has received a research grant from GE Healthcare and speaker honoraria from Bayer Vital, Circle Cardiovascular Imaging and GE Healthcare. M.R.D. has received speaker fees from Edwards, Novartis and Pfizer and has received consultancy fees from Beren, Jupiter Bioventures, Novartis and Silence Therapeutics. J.J.P. is a consultant for Philips. U.L. has received research grants to institutions from Abbott and is an honorary advisory lecturer for Abbott and Boston Scientific. G.G. has a consultant agreement with Abbott Vascular, Gentuity, Infraredx and Panovision and has received a research grant from Abbott Vascular, Amgen and Infraredx. A.A.G. reports speaker honoraria from GE Healthcare. M.C.W. has given talks for Canon Medical Systems, Novartis and Siemens Healthineers. D.E.N. has received grants, acts as a consultant and has clinical trial contracts with Abbott, Amgen, AstraZeneca, Autoplaque, BMS, Boehringer Ingelheim, Eli Lilly, GE Healthcare, GSK, Janssen, Life Molecular Imaging, MSD, Novartis, Pfizer, Phillips, Roche, Sanofi, Siemens, Silence Technologies, SOFIE, Toshiba, UCB, Vifor, Wyeth and Zealand. M.D. is the editor of <i>Cardiac CT</i> (published by Springer Nature) and offers hands-on courses on CT imaging () and has institutional research agreements with Canon, General Electric, Philips and Siemens. The terms of these arrangements are managed by the legal department of Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin. He also holds a joint approved patent with Florian Michallek on fractal analysis of medical imaging (EPO 2022 EP3350773A1 and USPTO 2021 10,991,109). The other authors declare no competing interests.