Funding for this research was provided by:
Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Arthritis and Rehabilitation
National Institutes of Health (N01-AR-2-2258; N01-AR-2-2259; N01-AR-2-2260; N01-AR-2-2261; N01-AR-2-2262)
Article History
Received: 26 February 2020
Revised: 6 April 2020
Accepted: 12 May 2020
First Online: 26 May 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: David Fürst and Wolfgang Wirth have a part-time employment with Chondrometrics GmbH; Wolfgang Wirth is a co-owner of Chondrometrics GmbH and has provided consulting services to Galapagos. Felix Eckstein is CEO of Chondrometrics GmbH, a company providing MR image analysis services to academic researchers and industry. He has provided consulting services to Merck KGaA, Abbvie, Tissuegene, Servier, Roche, Galapagos, and Novartis. Akshay Chaudhari has provided consulting services to SkopeMR, Inc., Subtle Medical, Chondrometrics GmbH, Image Analysis Group, and Culvert Engineering; and is a shareholder of Subtle Medical, LVIS Corporation, and BrainKey Inc.
: 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. This article does not contain any studies with animals performed by any of the authors.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the OAI.