Smith, Andrew
Varney, Elliot
Zand, Kevin
Lewis, Tara
Sirous, Reza
York, James
Florez, Edward
Abou Elkassem, Asser
Howard-Claudio, Candace M.
Roda, Manohar
Parker, Ellen
Scortegagna, Eduardo
Joyner, David
Sandlin, David
Newsome, Ashley
Brewster, Parker
Lirette, Seth T.
Griswold, Michael
Article History
First Online: 26 April 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: None.
: Andrew Smith is the inventor of the technology and has patents pending that are assigned to Liver Nodularity (Jackson, MS), owned by Andrew Smith. Andrew Smith was responsible for study design, analysis, and manuscript preparation but did not participate in measurements. The measurement data were controlled by other team members and the statistician. The University of Mississippi Medical Center has patents pending, is the patent assignee for these patents, and has licensed these patents to Liver Nodularity LLC. There are no other relevant conflicts of interest.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. The need for informed consent was waived by the institutional review board for this retrospective chart and imaging review study.