About the Authors

Shunsuke Mori

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

mori.shunsuke.ra@mail.hosp.go.jp

Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Clinical Research Center for Rheumatic Diseases, National Hospital Organization Kumamoto Saishun Medical Center, Kohshi, Kumamoto, Japan

Yukinori Koga

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

Affiliation Department of Radiology, Clinical Research Center for Rheumatic Diseases, National Hospital Organization Kumamoto Saishun Medical Center, Kohshi, Kumamoto, Japan

Kazuyoshi Nakamura

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, National Hospital Organization Kumamoto Saishun Medical Center, Kohshi, Kumamoto, Japan

Sayuri Hirooka

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, National Hospital Organization Kumamoto Saishun Medical Center, Kohshi, Kumamoto, Japan

Takako Matsuoka

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, National Hospital Organization Kumamoto Saishun Medical Center, Kohshi, Kumamoto, Japan

Hideshi Uramoto

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, National Hospital Organization Kumamoto Saishun Medical Center, Kohshi, Kumamoto, Japan

Osamu Sakamoto

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, National Hospital Organization Kumamoto Saishun Medical Center, Kohshi, Kumamoto, Japan

Yukitaka Ueki

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

Affiliation Rheumatic and Collagen Disease Center, Sasebo Chuo Hospital, Sasebo, Nagasaki, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.