Tombach, Franziska
Krompaß, Kristina
Hennes, Jan-Lucca
Weber, Anna
Grunz, Jan-Peter
Huflage, Henner
Bley, Thorsten Alexander
Heidenreich, Julius Frederik
Gruschwitz, Philipp https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2565-8111
Funding for this research was provided by:
Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Klinische Forschung, Universitätsklinikum Würzburg (Z-3BC/17)
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (N/A)
Siemens Healthineers (N/A)
Article History
Received: 10 June 2025
Accepted: 17 February 2026
First Online: 17 March 2026
Declarations
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: The institutional review board (Ethic Committee of the University of Würzburg; protocol number: 20230919 02) approved the retrospective data analysis.
: The Ethics Committee waived the requirement for informed consent for anonymized processing of image data by the AI.
: The institute has a research partnership with Siemens Healthineers. As part of this partnership, two versions of the algorithm were made available for examination. Study design, data collection, analysis, and publication were carried out in accordance with good scientific practices, with no involvement from the developer. T.A.B. and J.P.G. received speaker honoraria from Siemens Healthineers outside of the presented work. J.P.G. is a member of the Scientific Editorial Board of Insights into Imaging (section: Cardiovascular) and, as such, did not participate in the selection or review processes for this article.