van Riel, Sarah J.
Jacobs, Colin http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1180-3805
Scholten, Ernst Th.
Wittenberg, Rianne
Winkler Wille, Mathilde M.
de Hoop, Bartjan
Sprengers, Ralf
Mets, Onno M.
Geurts, Bram
Prokop, Mathias
Schaefer-Prokop, Cornelia
van Ginneken, Bram
Funding for this research was provided by:
Radboud University Medical Center
Article History
Received: 10 November 2017
Revised: 1 June 2018
Accepted: 6 June 2018
First Online: 31 July 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The scientific guarantor of this publication is Bram van Ginneken.
: The authors of this manuscript declare relationships with the following companies: Colin Jacobs, Mathias Prokop and Bram van Ginneken receive research grant and royalties from MeVis Medical Solutions AG for the development of Veolity, a lung cancer screening reading solution.
: No complex statistical methods were necessary for this paper.
: Written informed consent was obtained from all subjects (patients) in this study during the NLST trial.
: Institutional review board (IRB) approval was not required because we used CT data from the NLST trial for which IRB approval was obtained by the sites participating in the trial.
: Some study subjects or cohorts have been previously reported in other studies which have used the NLST data.
: • retrospective• diagnostic or prognostic study• multicentre study