About the Authors

Chun-Xia Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Chun-Xia Wang, Kai-Liang Fu

Affiliation Department of Medical Imaging, the Second Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China

Kai-Liang Fu

Contributed equally to this work with: Chun-Xia Wang, Kai-Liang Fu

Affiliation Department of Medical Imaging, the Second Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China

Huai-Jun Liu

huaijunliu2@126.com

Affiliation Department of Medical Imaging, the Second Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China

Fei Xing

Affiliation Department of Medical Imaging, the Second Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China

Song-Yun Zhang

Affiliation Department of Endocrinology, the Second Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CXW KLF HJL. Performed the experiments: CXW KLF FX. Analyzed the data: CXW KLF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KLF SYZ. Wrote the paper: CXW KLF.