About the Authors

Wei-Ting Chang

Contributed equally to this work with: Wei-Ting Chang, Jung-San Chen

Affiliations Division of Cardiology, Internal Medicine, Chi-Mei Medical Center, Tainan, Taiwan, Department of Engineering Science, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, Department of Biotechnology, Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Tainan, Taiwan

Jung-San Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Wei-Ting Chang, Jung-San Chen

Affiliation Department of Engineering Science, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

Meng-Hang Tsai

Affiliation Department of Engineering Science, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

Wei-Chuan Tsai

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Internal Medicine, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, Tainan, Taiwan

Jer-Nan Juang

larry@mail.ncku.edu.tw (PYL); jjuang@mail.ncku.edu.tw (JNJ)

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Engineering Science, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

Ping-Yen Liu

larry@mail.ncku.edu.tw (PYL); jjuang@mail.ncku.edu.tw (JNJ)

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Division of Cardiology, Internal Medicine, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, Tainan, Taiwan, Institute of Clinical Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Clinical Medical Sciences, College of Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: WTC JNJ PYL. Data curation: PYL. Formal analysis: WTC JSC JNJ PYL. Investigation: WTC JSC JNJ PYL. Methodology: WTC JSC MHT WCT PYL. Resources: WTC JSC JNJ PYL. Software: WTC JSC MHT PYL. Supervision: JNJ PYL. Validation: WTC JSC JNJ PYL. Visualization: WTC JSC JNJ PYL. Writing – original draft: WTC JSC JNJ PYL. Writing – review & editing: WTC JSC JNJ PYL.