About the Authors

Zhikai Su

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

Affiliation Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China

Zhenjie Ling

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China

Haoqiang Chen

Roles Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China

Lei Hu

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China

Songtao Xiang

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Urology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China

Qian Li

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

liqiantcm2012@163.com (QL); zhoujianfu@gzucm.edu.cn (JZ)

Affiliation Chinese Medicine Syndrome Research Team, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China

Jianfu Zhou

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

liqiantcm2012@163.com (QL); zhoujianfu@gzucm.edu.cn (JZ)

Affiliation Department of Urology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.