Ohno, Yoshiharu http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4431-1084
Aoki, Takatoshi
Endo, Masahiro
Koyama, Hisanobu
Moriya, Hiroshi
Okada, Fumito
Higashino, Takanori
Sato, Haruka
Oyama-Manabe, Noriko
Haraguchi, Takafumi
Arakita, Kazumasa
Aoyagi, Kota
Ikeda, Yoshihiro
Kaminaga, Shigeo
Taniguchi, Akira
Sugihara, Naoki
Funding for this research was provided by:
Canon Medical Systems Corporation
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSTS.KAKEN, No. 18K07675, JSTS.KAKEN, No. 20K08037)
Article History
Received: 26 July 2023
Accepted: 22 September 2023
First Online: 20 October 2023
Declarations
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: This study was financially supported by Canon Medical Systems Corporation. Drs. Ohno and Haraguchi received research grants from Canon Medical Systems Corporation, which also supported this work technically. Dr. Ohno received research grants from Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (JSTS.KAKEN; No. 18K07675 and JSTS.KAKEN; No. 20K08037) and the Smoking-Research Foundation. Messer. Arakita, Aoyagi, Ikeda, Kaminaga, Taniguchi and Sugihara were employees of Canon Medical Systems Corporation. Moreover, all authors and our institution and department chair, Prof. Yoshiharu Ohno, who is the corresponding author, agree to publication.
: Training and validation cases were retrospectively obtained with institutional review board approval from Fujita Health University Hospital and Kansai Medical University Medical Center. Both institutions received research grants from Canon Medical Systems. The test study was a retrospective study approved by the certified review board of Fujita Health University Hospital, which served as the coordinating center, and subsequently approved by the directors of Jichi Medical University Saitama Medical Center and St. Marianna University School of Medicine prior to site initiation. This study was compliant with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, written informed consent was waived, and it was technically and financially supported by Canon Medical Systems Corporation. Moreover, this study was financially supported by Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (JSTS.KAKEN; No. 18K07675 and JSTS.KAKEN; No. 20K08037) and the Smoking-Research Foundation. Six of the authors, Kazumasa Arakita, Kota Aoyagi, Yoshihiro Ikeda, Shigeo Kaminaga, Akira Taniguchi, Naoki Sugihara, are employees of Canon Medical Systems Corporation (Otawara, Tochigi, Japan) who did not have control over any of the data used in this study. Two employees of Micron, Inc., (Tokyo, Japan), which is an international clinical research organization (CRO), handled all data, and performed all statistical analyses independently from the authors.