About the Authors

Yanping Gong

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

Jing Yang

Roles Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

Wenshuang Wu

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

Feng Liu

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

Anping Su

Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

Zhihui Li

Roles Methodology, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

Jingqiang Zhu

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration

Affiliation Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

Tao Wei

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration

surgeonwei@163.com

Affiliation Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.