About the Authors

Taiichi Wakiya

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

wakiya1979@hirosaki-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine, Hirosaki, Aomori, Japan

Keinosuke Ishido

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine, Hirosaki, Aomori, Japan

Norihisa Kimura

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine, Hirosaki, Aomori, Japan

Hayato Nagase

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine, Hirosaki, Aomori, Japan

Shunsuke Kubota

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine, Hirosaki, Aomori, Japan

Hiroaki Fujita

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine, Hirosaki, Aomori, Japan

Yusuke Hagiwara

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine, Hirosaki, Aomori, Japan

Taishu Kanda

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine, Hirosaki, Aomori, Japan

Masashi Matsuzaka

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medical Informatics, Hirosaki University Hospital, Hirosaki, Aomori, Japan

Yoshihiro Sasaki

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medical Informatics, Hirosaki University Hospital, Hirosaki, Aomori, Japan

Kenichi Hakamada

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine, Hirosaki, Aomori, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.