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Article History

Received: 15 July 2024

Revised: 24 March 2025

Accepted: 9 April 2025

First Online: 22 May 2025

Compliance with ethical standards

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: The scientific guarantor of this publication is Yoshiharu Ohno, MD, PhD.

: Drs. Nagata and Ohno received a research grant from Canon Medical Systems Corporation, which also supported this work financially and technically. Moreover, Dr. Ohno received research grants from the Smoking Research Foundation and a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (JSTS KAKEN No. 20K08037). Y.F., K.F., Y.I., H.K., and N.A. are employees of Canon Medical Systems Corporation. They did not have control over any of the data used in this study. All authors and department chair, Yoshiharu Ohno, who is the first and corresponding author, have agreed to the publication of this study. All data were controlled by Drs. Ohno, Yoshikawa, Seki, Takenaka, Nagata, Nomura, Ueda and Ozawa. Moreover, all statistical analyses were performed by Drs. Yoshikawa, Seki, Takenaka, Nagata, Nomura, Ueda and Ozawa. This information is stated in the main text.

: No complex statistical methods were necessary for this paper.

: Written informed consent was waived.

: This retrospective study was approved by the Institutional Review Boards of Fujita Health University Hospital and Kobe University Hospital and is compliant with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.

: This study was not overlapped to any study cohort.

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