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Received: 17 June 2018

Accepted: 23 April 2019

First Online: 11 June 2019

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: The study protocol was approved by the local Ethics Committee at Medical Council in Gdansk, Poland (KB – 36/17). Informed consent was obtained from all participants. It was a verbal consent, because all tests (imaging and laboratory) were performed as a routine clinical evaluations, according to institutional guidelines. There were no additional tests for the purpose of the study, performed on participants. All model’s calculations were performed after the study concluded; thus, the models played no role in the decision-making process. The above mentioned ethics committee approved this procedure.

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