About the Authors

Kristina I. Ringe

ringe.kristina@mh-hannover.de

Affiliation Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Carolin Lutat

Affiliation Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Christian Rieder

Affiliation Institute for Medical Image Computing, Fraunhofer MEVIS, Bremen, Germany

Andrea Schenk

Affiliation Institute for Medical Image Computing, Fraunhofer MEVIS, Bremen, Germany

Frank Wacker

Affiliation Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Hans-Juergen Raatschen

Affiliation Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Competing Interests

Frank Wacker reports grants from the BMBF, German Center for Lung Research (DZL); BMBF Forschungscampus STIMULATE; DFG Rebirth-Cluster of Excellence; Promedicus Ltd and Siemens Healthcare, outside the submitted work. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KIR CL CR AS FW HJR. Performed the experiments: KIR CL HJR. Analyzed the data: KIR CL CR AS FW HJR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KIR CR AS. Wrote the paper: KIR CL CR AS FW HJR.