About the Authors

Yuma Tani

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

yuma-tani@matsutani.co.jp

Affiliation Matsutani Chemical Industry Co. Ltd., Itami-city, Japan

Masaaki Tokuda

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Kagawa University, Takamatsu-city, Japan

Naoki Nishimoto

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Clinical Research and Medical Innovation Center, Hokkaido University Hospital, Sapporo-city, Japan

Hideto Yokoi

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

Affiliation Department of Medical Informatics, Kagawa University Hospital, Kita-gun, Japan

Ken Izumori

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculty of Agriculture, Kagawa University, Kita-gun, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal’s policy and have the following competing interests: YT works for Matsutani Chemical Industry Co. Ltd. and receives salary as an employee. MT has patent with royalties paid to Kagawa University. KI has patent with royalties paid to Kagawa University. Matsutani Chemical Industry Co. Ltd. pays research grants to KI and advisor grants to MT. The authors would like to declare the following patents/patent applications associated with this research: JP 4627841, 5639759, 4609845, 4942001, 5283173, 4822272, 5633952, and 5715046. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.