About the Authors

Chen-Ling Huang

Contributed equally to this work with: Chen-Ling Huang, Yi-Hsin Elsa Hsu, Chung-Huei Hsu

Affiliation Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Usman Iqbal

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

Phung-Anh Nguyen

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

Zih-Fang Chen

Affiliation School of Health Care Administration, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

Daniel L. Clinciu

Affiliation Translational Medicine Program, College of Medical Science and Technology, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

Yi-Hsin Elsa Hsu

Contributed equally to this work with: Chen-Ling Huang, Yi-Hsin Elsa Hsu, Chung-Huei Hsu

Affiliation School of Health Care Administration, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

Chung-Huei Hsu

Contributed equally to this work with: Chen-Ling Huang, Yi-Hsin Elsa Hsu, Chung-Huei Hsu

Affiliation Department of Nuclear Medicine, Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Wen-Shan Jian

jjtmutw@gmail.com

Affiliation School of Health Care Administration, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CLH YHEH WSJ. Performed the experiments: UI PAN ZFC. Analyzed the data: PAN ZFC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YHEH WSJ. Wrote the paper: CLH UI PAN. Final approval of the version to be published: DLC CHH. Had full access to all of the data in the study and took responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis: WSJ.