Acknowledgement
The scientific guarantor of this publication is Tae Hoon Kim (Department of Radiology and the Research Institute of Radiological Science, Gangnam Severance Hospital, Yonsei University College of Medicine). Kyunghwa Han, an expert in statistics, provided statistical analysis and advice.
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