About the Authors

Chien-Hua Chen

Affiliations Digestive Disease Center, Show-Chwan Memorial Hospital, Changhua, Taiwan, Hungkuang University, Taichung, Taiwan, Meiho University of Technology, Pingtung, Taiwan

Cheng-Li Lin

Affiliations Management Office for Health Data, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, College of Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

Chia-Hung Kao

d10040@mail.cmuh.org.tw

Affiliations Graduate Institute of Clinical Medical Science, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Nuclear Medicine and PET Center, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: C-HC C-HK. Analyzed the data: C-HC C-LL C-HK. Wrote the paper: C-HC C-LL C-HK. Administrative support: C-HK; Collection and assembly of data: C-HC C-LL C-HK; Final approval of manuscript: C-HC C-LL C-HKao.