About the Authors

Hideaki Yamakawa

hide1144@jikei.ac.jp

Affiliations Department of Respiratory Medicine, Kanagawa Cardiovascular and Respiratory Center, Yokohama, Japan, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Tokyo Jikei University Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

Eri Hagiwara

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Kanagawa Cardiovascular and Respiratory Center, Yokohama, Japan

Hideya Kitamura

Affiliations Department of Respiratory Medicine, Kanagawa Cardiovascular and Respiratory Center, Yokohama, Japan, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Tokyo Jikei University Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

Yumie Yamanaka

Affiliations Department of Respiratory Medicine, Kanagawa Cardiovascular and Respiratory Center, Yokohama, Japan, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Tokyo Jikei University Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

Satoshi Ikeda

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Kanagawa Cardiovascular and Respiratory Center, Yokohama, Japan

Akimasa Sekine

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Kanagawa Cardiovascular and Respiratory Center, Yokohama, Japan

Tomohisa Baba

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Kanagawa Cardiovascular and Respiratory Center, Yokohama, Japan

Shinichiro Iso

Affiliation Department of Radiology, Yokohama Rousai Hospital for Labour Welfare Corporation, Yokohama, Japan

Koji Okudela

Affiliation Department of Pathobiology, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama, Japan

Tae Iwasawa

Affiliation Department of Radiology, Kanagawa Cardiovascular and Respiratory Center, Yokohama, Japan

Tamiko Takemura

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Japanese Red Cross Medical Center, Tokyo, Japan

Kazuyoshi Kuwano

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Tokyo Jikei University Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

Takashi Ogura

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Kanagawa Cardiovascular and Respiratory Center, Yokohama, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: HY TO. Investigation: HY SI KO TI TT TO. Methodology: HY EH HK YY SI AS TB KK. Project administration: HY TO. Supervision: TO. Validation: HY KK TO. Writing – original draft: HY EH. Writing – review & editing: EH TT KK TO.