About the Authors
- Surya P. Bhatt
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* E-mail: spbhatt@uab.edu (SPB); eric-hoffman@uiowa.edu (EAH)
Current address: University of Alabama at Birmingham, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America
Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America
- Jessica C. Sieren
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Affiliation Departments of Radiology and Biomedical Engineering, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America
- John D. Newell Jr
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Affiliation Departments of Radiology and Biomedical Engineering, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America
- Alejandro P. Comellas
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Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America
- Eric A. Hoffman
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* E-mail: spbhatt@uab.edu (SPB); eric-hoffman@uiowa.edu (EAH)
Affiliation Departments of Radiology and Biomedical Engineering, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America
Competing Interests
SPB and JCS have no conflicts of interest to declare. EAH is a founder and shareholder of VIDA Diagnostics Inc, a company that is commercializing lung image analysis software developed in part at the University of Iowa. JDN is a paid consultant with VIDA Diagnostics Inc and holds stock options in VIDA Diagnostics Inc, and has research grant funds from Siemens Health. APC is a paid consultant with VIDA Diagnostics Inc. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: SPB EAH. Performed the experiments: SPB JCS JDN EAH. Analyzed the data: SPB EAH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EAH JCS APC JDN. Wrote the paper: SPB EAH JCS JDN APC.