About the Authors

Taiichi Wakiya

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – original draft

wakiya.taiichi@jichi.ac.jp

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterological, General and Transplant Surgery, Department of Surgery, Jichi Medical University, Shimotsuke, Tochigi, Japan

Yukihiro Sanada

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterological, General and Transplant Surgery, Department of Surgery, Jichi Medical University, Shimotsuke, Tochigi, Japan

Noriki Okada

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterological, General and Transplant Surgery, Department of Surgery, Jichi Medical University, Shimotsuke, Tochigi, Japan

Yuta Hirata

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterological, General and Transplant Surgery, Department of Surgery, Jichi Medical University, Shimotsuke, Tochigi, Japan

Toshio Horiuchi

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterological, General and Transplant Surgery, Department of Surgery, Jichi Medical University, Shimotsuke, Tochigi, Japan

Takahiko Omameuda

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterological, General and Transplant Surgery, Department of Surgery, Jichi Medical University, Shimotsuke, Tochigi, Japan

Yasuharu Onishi

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterological, General and Transplant Surgery, Department of Surgery, Jichi Medical University, Shimotsuke, Tochigi, Japan

Yasunaru Sakuma

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterological, General and Transplant Surgery, Department of Surgery, Jichi Medical University, Shimotsuke, Tochigi, Japan

Hironori Yamaguchi

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterological, General and Transplant Surgery, Department of Surgery, Jichi Medical University, Shimotsuke, Tochigi, Japan

Yoshihiro Sasaki

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medical Informatics, Hirosaki University Hospital, Hirosaki, Aomori, Japan

Naohiro Sata

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterological, General and Transplant Surgery, Department of Surgery, Jichi Medical University, Shimotsuke, Tochigi, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.