About the Authors

Ryo Mori

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Thoracic Surgery, Clinical Research Institute, National Hospital Organization, Kyusyu Medical Center, Fukuoka, Japan

Koji Yamazaki

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

yamakan521@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Thoracic Surgery, Clinical Research Institute, National Hospital Organization, Kyusyu Medical Center, Fukuoka, Japan

Fumihiro Shoji

Roles Formal analysis, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Thoracic Surgery, Clinical Research Institute, National Hospital Organization, Kyusyu Medical Center, Fukuoka, Japan

Hidenori Kouso

Roles Data curation, Resources

Affiliation Department of Thoracic Surgery, Clinical Research Institute, National Hospital Organization, Kyusyu Medical Center, Fukuoka, Japan

Chie Ushijima

Roles Data curation, Resources

Affiliation Department of Thoracic Surgery, Clinical Research Institute, National Hospital Organization, Kyusyu Medical Center, Fukuoka, Japan

Naoko Miura

Roles Investigation, Validation

Affiliation Department of Thoracic Surgery, Clinical Research Institute, National Hospital Organization, Kyusyu Medical Center, Fukuoka, Japan

Tomoyoshi Takenaka

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Thoracic Surgery, Clinical Research Institute, National Hospital Organization, Kyusyu Medical Center, Fukuoka, Japan

Sadanori Takeo

Roles Data curation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Thoracic Surgery, Clinical Research Institute, National Hospital Organization, Kyusyu Medical Center, Fukuoka, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.