About the Authors

Shunichiro Tsuji

Contributed equally to this work with: Shunichiro Tsuji, Akimasa Takahashi

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

tsuji002@belle.shiga-med.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Shiga University of Medical Science, Seta Tsukinowa-cho, Otsu City, Shiga, Japan

Akimasa Takahashi

Contributed equally to this work with: Shunichiro Tsuji, Akimasa Takahashi

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Shiga University of Medical Science, Seta Tsukinowa-cho, Otsu City, Shiga, Japan

Asuka Higuchi

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Shiga University of Medical Science, Seta Tsukinowa-cho, Otsu City, Shiga, Japan

Akiyoshi Yamanaka

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Shiga University of Medical Science, Seta Tsukinowa-cho, Otsu City, Shiga, Japan

Tsukuru Amano

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Shiga University of Medical Science, Seta Tsukinowa-cho, Otsu City, Shiga, Japan

Fuminori Kimura

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Shiga University of Medical Science, Seta Tsukinowa-cho, Otsu City, Shiga, Japan

Ayumi Seko-Nitta

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Radiology, Shiga University of Medical Science, Seta Tsukinowa-cho, Otsu City, Shiga, Japan

Takashi Murakami

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

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Shiga University of Medical Science, Seta Tsukinowa-cho, Otsu City, Shiga, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.