About the Authors

Koichi Nishitsuka

Contributed equally to this work with: Koichi Nishitsuka, Akira Sugano

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Yamagata University Faculty of Medicine, Yamagata, Japan

Akira Sugano

Contributed equally to this work with: Koichi Nishitsuka, Akira Sugano

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

mlc12186@nifty.com

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Yamagata University Faculty of Medicine, Yamagata, Japan

Takayuki Matsushita

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Yamagata University Faculty of Medicine, Yamagata, Japan

Katsuhiro Nishi

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Yamagata University Faculty of Medicine, Yamagata, Japan

Hidetoshi Yamashita

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Yamagata University Faculty of Medicine, Yamagata, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.