Nemoto, Masahiro http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8413-2136
Nei, Yuichiro
Bartholmai, Brian
Yoshida, Kazuki
Matsui, Hiroki
Nakashita, Tamao
Motojima, Shinji
Aoshima, Masahiro
Ryu, Jay H.
Article History
Received: 13 July 2020
Accepted: 12 October 2020
First Online: 20 October 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The institutional review board of Kameda Medical Center approved the study (ID18-102) and allowed use of the opt-out method, instead of requiring informed consent.
: Not applicable.
: Dr. Bartholmai reports royalties from Imbio, LLC, during the conduct of the study. The CALIPER software is licensed to Imbio, LLC and sold as Imbio Lung Texture Analysis (LTA). Royalties are due to Mayo Clinic and Dr. Bartholmai and were paid during this study, but no fees were given to the authors or to Mayo Clinic directly related to the content of the manuscript. Dr. Bartholmai also received personal fees from Promedior, LLC, grants from NIH/NHLBI, personal fees from Imbio, LLC, and Mayo Clinic received fees from Boehringer Ingelheim, outside the submitted work in the last 3 years. In addition, Dr. Bartholmai has a patent systems and methods for analyzing in vivo tissue volumes using medical imaging pending.