About the Authors

Emilie M. M. Santos

e.santos@erasmusmc.nl

Affiliations Dept. of Radiology, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Dept. of Medical Informatics, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Dept. of Radiology, AMC, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering and Physics, AMC, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Wiro J. Niessen

Affiliations Dept. of Radiology, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Dept. of Medical Informatics, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Delft University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands

Albert J. Yoo

Affiliation Department of Radiology, Division of Interventional Neuroradiology, Texas Stroke Institute, Plano, Texas, United States of America

Olvert A. Berkhemer

Affiliation Dept. of Radiology, AMC, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Ludo F. Beenen

Affiliation Dept. of Radiology, AMC, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Charles B. Majoie

Contributed equally to this work with: Charles B. Majoie, Henk. A. Marquering

Affiliation Dept. of Radiology, AMC, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Henk. A. Marquering

Contributed equally to this work with: Charles B. Majoie, Henk. A. Marquering

Affiliations Dept. of Radiology, AMC, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering and Physics, AMC, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

MR CLEAN investigators

The complete membership of the author group can be found in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

Wiro J. Niessen is co-founder and shareholder of Quantib BV; Albert J. Yoo received a research grant from Penumbra Inc. and a research grant from Neuravi Inc.; Charles M. B. Majoie received a research grant from Stryker Inc.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ES WN HM. Performed the experiments: ES AY LB CM. Analyzed the data: ES WN HM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ES OB AY LB CM. Wrote the paper: ES WN AY OB LB CM HM.