Kolbinger, Fiona R.
El Nahhas, Omar S. M.
Nackenhorst, Maja Carina
Brostjan, Christine
Eilenberg, Wolf
Busch, Albert
Kather, Jakob Nikolas
Funding for this research was provided by:
Technische Universität Dresden
Article History
Received: 4 February 2025
Accepted: 9 July 2025
First Online: 16 September 2025
Declarations
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: This study was performed in accordance with the declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments. The local institutional review boards reviewed and approved the original data collection (Technical University Munich: #2799/10 and #576/18S, University Hospital Würzburg: #188/11, Medical University Vienna: #1729/2014). The overall analysis was approved by the ethics committee of the Technical University Dresden (BO-EK-444102022). All patients had a clinical indication for open AAA repair and gave informed consent to data collection and analysis.
: All patients whose data were analyzed in the context of this work gave consent to data analysis and publication of results. All data were analyzed and are reported in non-identifiable format.
: FRK declares advisory roles for Radical Healthcare, USA; and the Surgical Data Science Collective, USA. OSMEN holds shares in StratifAI GmbH. JNK declares consulting services for Owkin, France, DoMore Diagnostics, Norway, Panakeia, UK, Scailyte, Switzerland, Cancilico, Germany, Mindpeak, Germany, MultiplexDx, Slovakia, and Histofy, UK; furthermore he holds shares in StratifAI GmbH, Germany, has received a research grant by GSK, and has received honoraria by AstraZeneca, Bayer, Eisai, Janssen, MSD, BMS, Roche, Pfizer and Fresenius. The mentioned competing interests are related to the computational analysis of histopathology slides, which is the main topic of this research. All other authors declare no conflicts of interest.