About the Authors

Yasutaka Onishi

Contributed equally to this work with: Yasutaka Onishi, Tetsuji Kawamura, Takanori Higashino, Rokuro Mimura, Hiroaki Tsukamoto, Shin Sasaki

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

oonishi.yasutaka.ab@mail.hosp.go.jp

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, National Hospital Organization, Himeji Medical Center, Himeji, Hyogo, Japan

Tetsuji Kawamura

Contributed equally to this work with: Yasutaka Onishi, Tetsuji Kawamura, Takanori Higashino, Rokuro Mimura, Hiroaki Tsukamoto, Shin Sasaki

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, National Hospital Organization, Himeji Medical Center, Himeji, Hyogo, Japan

Takanori Higashino

Contributed equally to this work with: Yasutaka Onishi, Tetsuji Kawamura, Takanori Higashino, Rokuro Mimura, Hiroaki Tsukamoto, Shin Sasaki

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Radiology, National Hospital Organization, Himeji Medical Center, Himeji, Hyogo, Japan

Rokuro Mimura

Contributed equally to this work with: Yasutaka Onishi, Tetsuji Kawamura, Takanori Higashino, Rokuro Mimura, Hiroaki Tsukamoto, Shin Sasaki

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pathology, National Hospital Organization, Himeji Medical Center, Himeji, Hyogo, Japan

Hiroaki Tsukamoto

Contributed equally to this work with: Yasutaka Onishi, Tetsuji Kawamura, Takanori Higashino, Rokuro Mimura, Hiroaki Tsukamoto, Shin Sasaki

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, National Hospital Organization, Himeji Medical Center, Himeji, Hyogo, Japan

Shin Sasaki

Contributed equally to this work with: Yasutaka Onishi, Tetsuji Kawamura, Takanori Higashino, Rokuro Mimura, Hiroaki Tsukamoto, Shin Sasaki

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, National Hospital Organization, Himeji Medical Center, Himeji, Hyogo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.