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Jeroen van der Laak is a member of the scientific advisory boards of Philips (The Netherlands) and ContextVision (Sweden), and receives research funding from Philips (The Netherlands) and from Sectra (Sweden). The remaining authors declare no competing interests.
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van der Laak, J., Ciompi, F. & Litjens, G. No pixel-level annotations needed. Nat Biomed Eng 3, 855–856 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41551-019-0472-6
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