About the Authors

Benjamin Philipp Ernst

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

benjamin.ernst@unimedizin-mainz.de

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, University Medical Center Mainz, Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Manuel René Reissig

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, University Medical Center Mainz, Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Sebastian Strieth

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Jonas Eckrich

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, University Medical Center Mainz, Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Jan H. Hagemann

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, University Medical Center Mainz, Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Julia Döge

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, University Medical Center Mainz, Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Christoph Matthias

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, University Medical Center Mainz, Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Haralampos Gouveris

Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, University Medical Center Mainz, Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Johannes Rübenthaler

Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Radiology, LMU University Hospital, Munich, Bavaria, Germany

Roxanne Weiss

Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, University Hospital Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany

Wieland H. Sommer

Roles Conceptualization, Software

Affiliation Department of Radiology, LMU University Hospital, Munich, Bavaria, Germany

Dominik Nörenberg

Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, University Medical Center Mannheim, Mannheim, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany

Thomas Huber

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, University Medical Center Mannheim, Mannheim, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany

Phillipp Gonser

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, University of Tübingen Medical Center, Tübingen, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany

Sven Becker

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, University of Tübingen Medical Center, Tübingen, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany

Matthias F. Froelich

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, University Medical Center Mannheim, Mannheim, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany

Competing Interests

Wieland H Sommer is the founder and CEO of the company Smart Reporting GmbH, which hosts an online platform for structured reporting. Dominik Nörenberg and Thomas Huber are part-time employees of Smart Reporting GmbH. Matthias F Froelich is a medical consultant of Smart Reporting GmbH. The other authors of this manuscript declare no relationships with any companies, whose products or services may be related to the subject matter of the article. This manuscript is part of a medical doctoral thesis presented by Manuel R Reissig at the University Mainz Medical School. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.