About the Authors

Naoki Higuchi

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Hematology, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine, Hirosaki, Japan

Hiroto Hiraga

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

hhiraga@hirosaki-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Hematology, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine, Hirosaki, Japan

Yoshihiro Sasaki

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

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

Noriko Hiraga

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Hematology, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine, Hirosaki, Japan

Shohei Igarashi

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Hematology, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine, Hirosaki, Japan

Keisuke Hasui

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Hematology, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine, Hirosaki, Japan

Kohei Ogasawara

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Hematology, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine, Hirosaki, Japan

Takato Maeda

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Hematology, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine, Hirosaki, Japan

Yasuhisa Murai

Roles Conceptualization

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Hematology, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine, Hirosaki, Japan

Tetsuya Tatsuta

Roles Conceptualization, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Hematology, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine, Hirosaki, Japan

Hidezumi Kikuchi

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Hematology, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine, Hirosaki, Japan

Daisuke Chinda

Roles Conceptualization

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Hematology, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine, Hirosaki, Japan

Tatsuya Mikami

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Hematology, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine, Hirosaki, Japan

Masashi Matsuzaka

Roles Formal analysis, Project administration

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

Hirotake Sakuraba

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Hematology, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine, Hirosaki, Japan

Shinsaku Fukuda

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Gastroenterology and Hematology, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine, Hirosaki, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.