Logistic regression analysis of conventional ultrasonography, strain elastosonography, and contrast-enhanced ultrasound characteristics for the differentiation of benign and malignant thyroid nodules

• Tiantian Pang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Tiantian Pang, Leidan Huang

  Roles Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Health Science Center, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China, School of Biomedical Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China, National-Regional Key Technology Engineering Laboratory for Medical Ultrasound, Shenzhen 518060, China, Guangdong Key Laboratory for Biomedical Measurements and Ultrasound Imaging, Shenzhen 518060, China

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• Leidan Huang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Tiantian Pang, Leidan Huang

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Ultrasound, First Affiliated Hospital of Shenzhen University, Second People’s Hospital of Shenzhen, Shenzhen 518035, China, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou 510182, China

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• Yingyuan Deng,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Ultrasound, First Affiliated Hospital of Shenzhen University, Second People’s Hospital of Shenzhen, Shenzhen 518035, China

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• Tianfu Wang,

  Roles Supervision

  Affiliations Health Science Center, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China, School of Biomedical Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China, National-Regional Key Technology Engineering Laboratory for Medical Ultrasound, Shenzhen 518060, China, Guangdong Key Laboratory for Biomedical Measurements and Ultrasound Imaging, Shenzhen 518060, China

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• Siping Chen,

  Roles Supervision

  Affiliations Health Science Center, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China, School of Biomedical Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China, National-Regional Key Technology Engineering Laboratory for Medical Ultrasound, Shenzhen 518060, China, Guangdong Key Laboratory for Biomedical Measurements and Ultrasound Imaging, Shenzhen 518060, China

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• Xuehao Gong ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition

  * E-mail: fox_gxh@sina.com (XHG); wxliu@szu.edu.cn (WXL)

  Affiliation Department of Ultrasound, First Affiliated Hospital of Shenzhen University, Second People’s Hospital of Shenzhen, Shenzhen 518035, China

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2401-5656

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• Weixiang Liu

  Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology

  * E-mail: fox_gxh@sina.com (XHG); wxliu@szu.edu.cn (WXL)

  Affiliations Health Science Center, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China, School of Biomedical Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China, National-Regional Key Technology Engineering Laboratory for Medical Ultrasound, Shenzhen 518060, China, Guangdong Key Laboratory for Biomedical Measurements and Ultrasound Imaging, Shenzhen 518060, China

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