Qu, Jinrong
Wang, Zhaoqi
Qin, Jianjun
Zhang, Hongkai
Zhao, Yan
Lu, Yanan
Yan, Xu
Zhang, Shouning
Wang, Shaoyu
Kamel, Ihab R.
Li, Hailiang https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5019-9148
Funding for this research was provided by:
the General Programs of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (81972802)
the Henan Health Science and Technology Innovation Talent Project (201004057)
National nature science foundation of Henan Province (182300410355)
Article History
Received: 13 November 2019
Revised: 1 January 2020
Accepted: 5 February 2020
First Online: 21 February 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
:
: The scientific guarantor of this publication is Hailiang Li.
: TTwo of the authors of this manuscript (Xu Yan and Shaoyu Wang) are employees of Siemens Healthineers. The remaining authors declare no relationships with any companies whose products or services may be related to the subject matter of the article.
: No complex statistical methods were necessary for this paper.
: Written informed consent was obtained from all subjects (patients) in this study.
: The protocol was approved by Henan Cancer Hospital Review Board and informed consent was obtained from all the study subjects. This is a prospective diagnostic accuracy study performed between March 2015 and January 2019 (International Clinical Registration ChiCTR-dod-14005308 2014-10-11). All the authors have followed the applicable ethical standards to maintain the research integrity without any duplication, fraud, or plagiarism issues.
: • Prospective• Case-control study• Performed at one institution