About the Authors

Yusuke Ozaki

Contributed equally to this work with: Yusuke Ozaki, Hidenao Yamada

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Second Department of Surgery, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan

Hidenao Yamada

Contributed equally to this work with: Yusuke Ozaki, Hidenao Yamada

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

iwai@crl.hpk.co.jp

Affiliation Central Research Laboratory, Hamamatsu Photonics K.K., Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan

Hirotoshi Kikuchi

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Second Department of Surgery, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan

Amane Hirotsu

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Second Department of Surgery, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan

Tomohiro Murakami

Roles Resources

Affiliation Second Department of Surgery, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan

Tomohiro Matsumoto

Roles Resources

Affiliation Second Department of Surgery, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan

Toshiki Kawabata

Roles Funding acquisition

Affiliation Second Department of Surgery, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan

Yoshihiro Hiramatsu

Roles Resources

Affiliation Second Department of Surgery, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan

Kinji Kamiya

Roles Resources

Affiliation Second Department of Surgery, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan

Toyohiko Yamauchi

Roles Data curation, Methodology

Affiliation Central Research Laboratory, Hamamatsu Photonics K.K., Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan

Kentaro Goto

Roles Resources

Affiliation Central Research Laboratory, Hamamatsu Photonics K.K., Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan

Yukio Ueda

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Central Research Laboratory, Hamamatsu Photonics K.K., Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan

Shigetoshi Okazaki

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Department of Medical Spectroscopy, Institute for Medical Photonics Research, Preeminent Medical Photonics Education and Research Center, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan

Masatoshi Kitagawa

Roles Supervision

Affiliations Department of Molecular Biology, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan, Laboratory Animal Facilities and Services, Preeminent Medical Photonics Education and Research Center, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan

Hiroya Takeuchi

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Second Department of Surgery, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan

Hiroyuki Konno

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration

Affiliation Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan

Competing Interests

A patent application on the label-free classification technology has been filed by Hamamatsu University School of Medicine and Hamamatsu Photonics K.K. U.S. patent application names and number: YO, HY, HK, HK, and TY; Identification device and identification method, U.S. Serial Number 15/329,456. There are no further patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS One policies on sharing data and materials.