About the Authors
- Hidekatsu Kuroda
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: hikuro@iwate-med.ac.jp
Affiliation Division of Hepatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Iwate Medical University, Iwate, Japan
- Yudai Fujiwara
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Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation
Affiliation Division of Hepatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Iwate Medical University, Iwate, Japan
- Tamami Abe
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Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation
Affiliation Division of Hepatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Iwate Medical University, Iwate, Japan
- Tomoaki Nagasawa
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Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation
Affiliation Division of Hepatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Iwate Medical University, Iwate, Japan
- Takuma Oguri
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Roles Software
Affiliation Ultrasound General Imaging, GE Healthcare, Hino, Tokyo, Japan
- Sachiyo Noguchi
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Roles Software
Affiliation Ultrasound General Imaging, GE Healthcare, Hino, Tokyo, Japan
- Naohisa Kamiyama
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Roles Software
Affiliation Ultrasound General Imaging, GE Healthcare, Hino, Tokyo, Japan
- Yasuhiro Takikawa
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Roles Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Division of Hepatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Iwate Medical University, Iwate, Japan
Competing Interests
The authors have read the journal’s policy, and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: T.O., S.N. and N.K. are paid employees of GE Healthcare Japan. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. The other authors declare that they have no competing interests. There are no products in development or marketing products to declare.