About the Authors

Hidekatsu Kuroda

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

hikuro@iwate-med.ac.jp

Affiliation Division of Hepatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Iwate Medical University, Iwate, Japan

Yudai Fujiwara

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation

Affiliation Division of Hepatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Iwate Medical University, Iwate, Japan

Tamami Abe

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

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation

Affiliation Division of Hepatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Iwate Medical University, Iwate, Japan

Takuma Oguri

Roles Software

Affiliation Ultrasound General Imaging, GE Healthcare, Hino, Tokyo, Japan

Sachiyo Noguchi

Roles Software

Affiliation Ultrasound General Imaging, GE Healthcare, Hino, Tokyo, Japan

Naohisa Kamiyama

Roles Software

Affiliation Ultrasound General Imaging, GE Healthcare, Hino, Tokyo, Japan

Yasuhiro Takikawa

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.