Mühlberg, Alexander
Holch, Julian W.
Heinemann, Volker
Huber, Thomas
Moltz, Jan
Maurus, Stefan
Jäger, Nils
Liu, Lian
Froelich, Matthias F.
Katzmann, Alexander
Gresser, Eva
Taubmann, Oliver
Sühling, Michael
Nörenberg, Dominik http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7726-9006
Funding for this research was provided by:
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
Article History
Received: 11 March 2020
Revised: 2 July 2020
Accepted: 13 August 2020
First Online: 27 August 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The scientific guarantor of this publication is Dr. Dominik Nörenberg.
: All coauthors contributed substantially to the success of our research project, which was part of a consortium and funded by an academic BMBF grant by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. A.M., M.S., O.T., and A.K. are employees of Siemens Healthineers and contributed with support of J.M. substantially to the statistical and machine learning analyses. However, no commercial software or product-related application has been tested in the study. The research is not financially supported by industry. Academic radiologists (D.N., T.H., S.M., M.F., E.G.), oncologists (J.H., V.H.), and doctoral students (N.J., L.L.) had full control over the data. There are no potential conflicts of interest.
: Several authors have significant statistical expertise (A.M., J.M., A.K., O.T.).
: Written informed consent was obtained from all subjects (patients) in this study.
: Institutional Review Board approval was obtained. Our retrospective study was approved by and registered with the institutional review board of the Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich, Germany (approval no. 502-16).
: • retrospective• prognostic study• performed at one institution