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Software "MI_prediction_retina_mcVAE" © University of Leeds (2018-2021), all rights reserved, hereinafter "the Software".

This Software has been developed by researchers of CISTIB of University of Leeds.

School of Computing
University of Leeds, 
Woodhouse Lane, 
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United Kingdom

The University of Leeds holds all the ownership rights on the Software.

The Software is still being currently developed.
The University of Leeds aims for the Software to be used by the scientific community to test it and evaluate it so that the University of Leeds may improve it.

For these reasons, the University of Leeds has decided to distribute the Software via GitHub server. 

University of Leeds grants to the academic user, free of charge, without the right to sublicense non-exclusive right to use the Software for research purposes for one (1) year from the date of the download of the source code. Any other use without the prior consent of the University of Leeds is prohibited.

The academic user explicitly acknowledges having received from the University of Leeds all information allowing her/him to appreciate the adequacy between the Software and her/his needs and undertake all necessary precautions for its execution and use.

The Software is provided only as a source file.

In case of using the Software for a publication or other results obtained through the use of the Software, user should cite the Software as follows:

@Article{DiazPinto2021,
  author               = {Diaz-Pinto, A and Attar, R and Ravikumar, N and Suinesiaputra, A and Zhao, Y and Levelt, E and {Dall'Armellina}, E and Lorenzi, M and Chen, Q and Keenan, T D L and {Agr\'{o}n}, E and Chew, E Y and Lu, Z and Gale, C P and Gale, R P and Plein, S and Frangi, A F},
  title                = {Predicting Infarction through Retinal Scans and Basic Demographics},
  journal              = {Nat Machine Intel.},
  year     			   = {2021},
  pubstate             = {In press}
}

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