About the Authors

Ying Shi

Contributed equally to this work with: Ying Shi, Weihua Gong

Roles Methodology, Project administration, Resources

‡ These authors share first authorship on this work.

Affiliation Clinical Laboratory, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China

Weihua Gong

Contributed equally to this work with: Ying Shi, Weihua Gong

Roles Data curation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors share first authorship on this work.

Affiliation Clinical Laboratory, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China

Xiangrong Gong

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation

Affiliation Internal Medicine Department, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China

Ping Wang

Roles Methodology, Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Clinical Laboratory, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China

Xin Zhao

Roles Data curation, Investigation

zdsfyzx@zzu.edu.cn

Affiliation Department of Radiology, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.