About the Authors

Feiqian Wang

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Gastroenterological Center, Yokohama City University Medical Center, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan, Ultrasound Department, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, People’s Republic of China

Kazushi Numata

Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

kz-numa@urahp.yokohama-cu.ac.jp

Affiliation Gastroenterological Center, Yokohama City University Medical Center, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Atsuya Takeda

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Radiation Oncology Center, Ofuna Chuo Hospital, Kanagawa, Japan

Katsuaki Ogushi

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Gastroenterological Center, Yokohama City University Medical Center, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Hiroyuki Fukuda

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Gastroenterological Center, Yokohama City University Medical Center, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Koji Hara

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Gastroenterological Center, Yokohama City University Medical Center, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Makoto Chuma

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Gastroenterological Center, Yokohama City University Medical Center, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Takahisa Eriguchi

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Radiation Oncology Center, Ofuna Chuo Hospital, Kanagawa, Japan

Yuichirou Tsurugai

Roles Conceptualization

Affiliation Radiation Oncology Center, Ofuna Chuo Hospital, Kanagawa, Japan

Shin Maeda

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Kanagawa, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.