Park, Vivian Y.
Lee, Eunjung
Lee, Hye Sun
Kim, Hye Jung
Yoon, Jiyoung
Son, Jinwoo
Song, Kijun
Moon, Hee Jung
Yoon, Jung Hyun
Kim, Ga Ram
Kwak, Jin Young
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Research Foundation of Korea (2019R1A2C1002375)
Article History
Received: 9 June 2020
Revised: 30 August 2020
Accepted: 1 October 2020
First Online: 9 October 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
:
: The scientific guarantor of this publication is Jin Young Kwak, M.D., PhD.
: The authors of this manuscript declare no relationships with any companies whose products or services may be related to the subject matter of the article.
: One of the authors (Hye Sun Lee, PhD ) has significant statistical expertise.
: Written informed consent was waived by the Institutional Review Board.
: Institutional Review Board approval was obtained.
: Among our study population, 507 thyroid nodules in 507 patients were included in a previous study which developed and evaluated the performance of a deep learning–based US computer-aided diagnosis system (Reference: Park VY, Han K, Seong YK et al (2019) Diagnosis of Thyroid Nodules: Performance of a deep learning convolutional neural network model vs. radiologists. <i>Sci Rep</i> 9:17843.).
: • retrospective• diagnostic or prognostic study• performed at one institution