About the Authors

Takahiro Sato

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation First Department of Medicine, Hokkaido University Hospital, Sapporo, Japan

Ichizo Tsujino

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

itsujino@med.hokudai.ac.jp

Affiliation First Department of Medicine, Hokkaido University Hospital, Sapporo, Japan

Hiroshi Ohira

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation First Department of Medicine, Hokkaido University Hospital, Sapporo, Japan

Noriko Oyama-Manabe

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Hokkaido University Hospital, Sapporo, Japan

Yoichi M. Ito

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan

Chisa Takashina

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation First Department of Medicine, Hokkaido University Hospital, Sapporo, Japan

Taku Watanabe

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation First Department of Medicine, Hokkaido University Hospital, Sapporo, Japan

Masaharu Nishimura

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation First Department of Medicine, Hokkaido University Hospital, Sapporo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.