About the Authors

Shih-Ping Liu

Affiliation Department of Urology, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Ching-Chun Lin

Affiliation Graduate Institute of Biomedical Informatics, College of Medical Science and Technology, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

Herng-Ching Lin

Affiliation School of Health Care Administration, College of Public Health and Nutrition, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

Yi-Hua Chen

Affiliation School of Public Health, College of Public Health and Nutrition, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

Hong-Jeng Yu

yhj5251@ntu.edu.tw

Affiliations Department of Urology, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, Far Eastern Memorial Hosital, New Taipei City, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SPL CCL YHC HCL. Performed the experiments: YHC HCL HJY. Analyzed the data: YHC HCL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YHC HCL HJY. Wrote the paper: SPL CCL YHC HCL HJY.