About the Authors

Sho Hosokawa

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

shosokawa@epu.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Medical Technology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ehime Prefectural University of Health Sciences, Ehime, Japan

Yoshiaki Norimatsu

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Medical Technology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ehime Prefectural University of Health Sciences, Ehime, Japan

Akiko Shinagawa

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Fukui, Fukui, Japan

Tetsuji Kurokawa

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Fukui, Fukui, Japan

Yoshio Yoshida

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Fukui, Fukui, Japan

Takeshi Nishikawa

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Nara Medical University Hospital, Nara, Japan

Hisae Suzuki

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Nara Medical University Hospital, Nara, Japan

Satoshi Irino

Roles Formal analysis, Validation

Affiliation Department of Medical Technology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ehime Prefectural University of Health Sciences, Ehime, Japan

Tadao K. Kobayashi

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Executive Director, Tenri University, Nara, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.