About the Authors

Tsuyoshi Oguma

tyoguma@tokai-u.jp

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Medicine, Tokai University School of Medicine, Kanagawa, Japan

Takashi Nagaoka

Current address: Department of Computational Systems Biology, Faculty of Biology-Oriented Science and Technology, Kinki University, Wakayama, Japan

Affiliation Research Institute for Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan

Muneshige Kurahashi

Affiliation Ogino Memorial Laboratory, Nihon Kohden Corporation, Tokyo, Japan

Naofumi Kobayashi

Affiliation Ogino Memorial Laboratory, Nihon Kohden Corporation, Tokyo, Japan

Shinji Yamamori

Affiliation Ogino Memorial Laboratory, Nihon Kohden Corporation, Tokyo, Japan

Chizuko Tsuji

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Tokai University School of Medicine, Kanagawa, Japan

Hiroto Takiguchi

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Medicine, Tokai University School of Medicine, Kanagawa, Japan

Kyoko Niimi

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Medicine, Tokai University School of Medicine, Kanagawa, Japan

Hiromi Tomomatsu

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Medicine, Tokai University School of Medicine, Kanagawa, Japan

Katsuyoshi Tomomatsu

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Medicine, Tokai University School of Medicine, Kanagawa, Japan

Naoki Hayama

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Medicine, Tokai University School of Medicine, Kanagawa, Japan

Takuya Aoki

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Medicine, Tokai University School of Medicine, Kanagawa, Japan

Tetsuya Urano

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Medicine, Tokai University School of Medicine, Kanagawa, Japan

Kazushige Magatani

Affiliation Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Tokai University School of Engineering, Kanagawa, Japan

Sunao Takeda

Affiliation Research Institute for Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan

Tadashi Abe

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Medicine, Tokai University School of Medicine, Kanagawa, Japan

Koichiro Asano

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Medicine, Tokai University School of Medicine, Kanagawa, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: KA TN T. Abe ST. Data curation: TO KA MK NK SY. Formal analysis: TO KA. Funding acquisition: T. Abe KA ST. Investigation: HT KN HT KT NH T. Aoki TU. Methodology: MK NK SY. Project administration: TO KA TN T. Abe. Resources: T. Abe KA TN ST. Supervision: CT KM ST T. Abe. Validation: TN. Writing – original draft: TO KA. Writing – review & editing: TN MK NK SY CT HT KN HT KT NH T. Aoki TU KM ST T. Abe.