About the Authors

Yu Liang

Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Ultrasound, Sichuan Academy of Medical Sciences & Sichuan Provincial People’s Hospital, School of Medicine, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

Xingxiang Huang

Roles Writing – original draft

Affiliation School of Medicine, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

Zhe Song

Roles Methodology, Resources

Affiliation Department of Thyroid Surgery, Sichuan Academy of Medical Sciences & Sichuan Provincial People’s Hospital, School of Medicine, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

Yang Yang

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Ultrasound, Sichuan Academy of Medical Sciences & Sichuan Provincial People’s Hospital, School of Medicine, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

Ju Lei

Roles Data curation

Affiliation North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong, Sichuan, China

Mei Ren

Roles Data curation

Affiliation North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong, Sichuan, China

Li Tan

Contributed equally to this work with: Li Tan, Hui Zhang

Roles Writing – original draft

tanlics@med.uestc.edu.cn (LT); zhanghuics@med.uestc.edu.cn (HZ)

Affiliation Department of Ultrasound, Sichuan Academy of Medical Sciences & Sichuan Provincial People’s Hospital, School of Medicine, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

Hui Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Li Tan, Hui Zhang

Roles Writing – review & editing

tanlics@med.uestc.edu.cn (LT); zhanghuics@med.uestc.edu.cn (HZ)

Affiliation Department of Ultrasound, Sichuan Academy of Medical Sciences & Sichuan Provincial People’s Hospital, School of Medicine, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

Competing Interests

NO authors have competing interests.