About the Authors

Chun-Ho Yun

Affiliations Department of Biomedical Imaging and Radiological Sciences, National Yang Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Radiology, Mackay Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Medicine, Mackay Medical College, and Mackay Medicine Nursing and Management College, Taipei, Taiwan

Hiram G. Bezerra

Affiliation Harrington Heart and Vascular Institute, University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Tung-Hsin Wu

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Imaging and Radiological Sciences, National Yang Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Fei-Shih Yang

Affiliation Department of Radiology, Mackay Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Chuan-Chuan Liu

Affiliations Graduate Institute of Health Care Organization Administration, College of Public Health National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Health Evaluation Center, Mackay Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Medical Technology, Yuanpei University of Science and Technology, Hsin-Chu, Taiwan

Yih-Jer Wu

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Mackay Medical College, and Mackay Medicine Nursing and Management College, Taipei, Taiwan, Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Mackay Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Jen-Yuan Kuo

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Mackay Medical College, and Mackay Medicine Nursing and Management College, Taipei, Taiwan, Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Mackay Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Chung-Lieh Hung

jotaro3791@gmail.com

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Mackay Medical College, and Mackay Medicine Nursing and Management College, Taipei, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Health Care Organization Administration, College of Public Health National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Mackay Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Health Industry Management, Kainan University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Jason Jeun-Shenn Lee

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Imaging and Radiological Sciences, National Yang Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Charles Jia-Yin Hou

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Mackay Medical College, and Mackay Medicine Nursing and Management College, Taipei, Taiwan, Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Mackay Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Hung-I Yeh

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Mackay Medical College, and Mackay Medicine Nursing and Management College, Taipei, Taiwan, Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Mackay Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Chris T. Longenecker

Contributed equally to this work with: Chris T. Longenecker, Ricardo C. Cury

Affiliation Harrington Heart and Vascular Institute, University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Ricardo C. Cury

Contributed equally to this work with: Chris T. Longenecker, Ricardo C. Cury

Affiliation Cardiovascular MRI and CT Program, Baptist Cardiac Vascular Institute, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: C-HY C-LH RCC. Performed the experiments: C-LH C-HY. Analyzed the data: C-LH Y-JW J-YK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HGB T-HW F-SY C-CL JJ-SL CJ-YH. Wrote the paper: C-LH C-HY H-IY CTL.