About the Authors

Cheng-Hsiang Chu

Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Division of Chest Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, School of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

Yen-Hsiang Huang

Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Division of Chest Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, College of Medicine, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan

Po-Hsin Lee

Roles Data curation

Affiliations Division of Chest Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, College of Medicine, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan, Ph.D. Program in Translational Medicine, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, Rong Hsing Research Center For Translational Medicine, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan

Kuo-Hsuan Hsu

Roles Investigation, Visualization

Affiliation Division of Critical Care and Respiratory Therapy, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

Kun-Chieh Chen

Roles Investigation

Affiliations Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, School of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, Institute of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

Kang-Yi Su

Roles Investigation, Resources, Validation

Affiliations Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences and Medical Biotechnology, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Laboratory Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Sung-Liang Yu

Roles Software, Validation

Affiliations Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences and Medical Biotechnology, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Laboratory Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Institute of Medical Device and Imaging, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Pathology, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Jeng-Sen Tseng

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

tzeng64@gmail.com

Affiliations Division of Chest Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, College of Medicine, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Post-Baccalaureate Medicine, College of Medicine, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan

Tsung-Ying Yang

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Resources, Supervision

Affiliations Division of Chest Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Life Sciences, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan

Gee-Chen Chang

Roles Resources

Affiliations Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, School of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, Institute of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.