Opatřil, Lukáš https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5504-7370
Mojica-Pisciotti, Mary Luz https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9827-1006
Panovský, Roman https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8489-132X
Máchal, Jan https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8292-3145
Holeček, Tomáš https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8805-668X
Feitová, Věra https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6789-6687
Godava, Július https://orcid.org/0009-0000-6376-6183
Poloczková, Hana https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9870-5388
Kincl, Vladimír https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4513-7388
Krejčí, Jan https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4468-2843
Funding for this research was provided by:
Ministerstvo Školství, Mládeže a Tělovýchovy (MUNI/A/1844/2025)
Ministerstvo Zdravotnictví Ceské Republiky (NU22-02-00418)
Article History
Received: 1 April 2026
Accepted: 3 July 2026
First Online: 15 July 2026
Declarations
Ethics approval and consent to participate: This retrospective study used pseudonymized data from a previously approved prospective study, previously approved by the St. Anne’s University Hospital Ethics Committee, Brno, Czech Republic (Ref. 32 V/2013), in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki (2000) of the World Medical Association. All patients provided written informed consent to participate in the original study and to the use of their data for future research. According to the standard practice of the St. Anne’s University Hospital Ethics Committee and applicable Czech regulations, additional approval for this retrospective analysis of pseudonymized data is not required; the committee does not issue separate written waivers for such studies.
Consent for publication: Not applicable.
Competing interests: Mary Luz Mojica Pisciotti is a member of the Editorial Board of BMC Medical Imaging. She had no involvement in the editorial handling or review process of this manuscript.