About the Authors

Xin Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Xin Wang, Bobo Zheng

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, First Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

Bobo Zheng

Contributed equally to this work with: Xin Wang, Bobo Zheng

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

Affiliation Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

Xinlan Lu

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Validation

heshuixiang2017@yeah.net(SXH); luneworchid@126.com(XLL)

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, First Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

Ruhai Bai

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Software, Validation

Affiliation Global Health Institute, Xi’an Jiaotong University Health Science Center, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

Linlin Feng

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

Affiliation Medical Imaging Center, Northwest Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

Quan Wang

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Digestive Disease Hospital, Xijing Hospital, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China

Yan Zhao

Roles Formal analysis, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, First Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

Shuixiang He

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

heshuixiang2017@yeah.net(SXH); luneworchid@126.com(XLL)

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology, First Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.