Tang, Shilong
Xu, Ye
Liu, Xianfan
Chen, Zhuo
Zhou, Yu
Nie, Lisha
He, Ling
Article History
Received: 15 May 2020
Revised: 23 July 2020
Accepted: 8 September 2020
First Online: 18 September 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The scientific guarantor of this publication is Ling He.
: One of the authors of this manuscript (Lisha Nie) is an employee of GE Healthcare. The remaining authors declare no relationships with any companies whose products or services may be related to the subject matter of the article.
: One of the authors has significant statistical expertise.
: Written informed consent was obtained from all subjects (patients) in this study.
: Institutional Review Board approval was obtained. 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.
: •prospective• diagnostic or prognostic study• performed at one institution