About the Authors

Kuan-Jung Chen

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Orthopaedics, China Medical University Hsinchu Hospital, Hsinchu, Taiwan, Department of Orthopaedics, School of Medicine, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan

Wei Hsiung

Roles Resources, Software, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Orthopaedics, School of Medicine, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Orthopaedics, Shin Kong Wu Ho-Su Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Chien-Yuan Wang

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration

Affiliations Department of Orthopaedics, China Medical University Hsinchu Hospital, Hsinchu, Taiwan, Department of Orthopaedics, College of Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

Oscar Kuang-Sheng Lee

Roles Project administration, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Orthopaedics, College of Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, Institute of Clinical Medicine, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan, Center for Translational Genomics and Regenerative Medicine, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Stem Cell Research Center, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan

Kuo-Kuang Huang

Roles Data curation, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Information Science, National Penghu University of Science and Technology, Penghu, Taiwan

Ye Huang

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Orthopedics, Knee Preservation Clinical and Research Center, Beijing Jishuitan Hospital, Beijing, China

Jesse Chieh-Szu Yang

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

jeffyang80@hotmail.com

Affiliations Department of Orthopaedics, School of Medicine, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan, Institute of Clinical Medicine, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.