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"Disclosure Dr Richard Lee is funded by the Royal Marsden NIHR BRC and Royal Marsden Cancer Charity. Dr Lee’s institution receives compensation for time spent in a secondment role for the NHS England Targeted lung health check programme, and as a national specialty lead for the National Institute of Health and Care Research. He has received research funding from CRUK, Innovate UK (co-funded by GE Healthcare, Roche and Optellum), SBRI (co-applicant in grants with QURE.AI), RM Partners Care Alliance and NIHR (co-applicant in grants with Optellum). He has received honoraria from CRUK. Dr Anoop D. Shah is supported by grants from NIHR (AI_AWARD01864 and COV-LT-0009), UKRI (Horizon Europe Guarantee for DataTools4Heart) and British Heart Foundation Accelerator Award (AA/18/6/24223). Professor Nick Curzen reports grants from Backmann Coulter, during the conduct of the study; grants and/or personal fees from Haemonetics, Boston Scientific, Heartflow, and Abbott, outside the submitted work. Professor Ajay Shah reports personal fees from Forcefield Therapeutics and CYTE, outside the submitted work. Professor Jamil Mayet is supported by a BHF Consultant Research Award (FS/CRA/22/23036) and the BHF Imperial Centre for Research Excellence (RE/18/4/34215). The authors report no other conflicts of interest in this work."

"The research was supported by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Biomedical Research Centres at Imperial, King’s, Oxford, UCLH, Royal Marsden and ICR, Leeds, Manchester, Southampton, Leicester, Bristol, and Guys & St Thomas’. The views expressed are those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of the NHS, the NIHR or the Department of Health."