About the Authors

Xi-Hsuan Lin

Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, National Yang Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Jeng-Kai Jiang

Roles Data curation

Affiliations Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, National Yang Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Division of Colorectal Surgery, Department of Surgery, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Jiing-Chyuan Luo

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

jcluo@vghtpe.gov.tw

Affiliations Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, National Yang Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Chung-Chi Lin

Roles Data curation

Affiliations Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, National Yang Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Healthcare and Management Center, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Po-Hsiang Ting

Roles Investigation, Validation

Affiliations Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, National Yang Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Ueng-Cheng Yang

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Visualization

Affiliation Institute of Biomedical Informatics, National Yang Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Yuan-Tzu Lan

Roles Data curation

Affiliations Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, National Yang Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Division of Colorectal Surgery, Department of Surgery, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Yi-Hsiang Huang

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Supervision

Affiliations Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, National Yang Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Ming-Chih Hou

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Validation

Affiliations Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, National Yang Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Fa-Yauh Lee

Roles Resources, Validation

Affiliations Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, National Yang Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.