About the Authors

Takahiro Ochi

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba, Japan

Yuichi Sakairi

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

y_sakairi1@chiba-u.jp

Affiliations Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba, Japan, Division of Thoracic Surgery, Chiba Cancer Center, Chiba, Japan

Yuki Sata

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba, Japan

Takahide Toyoda

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba, Japan

Terunaga Inage

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba, Japan

Kazuhisa Tanaka

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba, Japan

Hajime Tamura

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba, Japan

Masako Chiyo

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba, Japan

Yukiko Matsui

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba, Japan

Yuki Shiko

Roles Data curation, Methodology

Affiliation Clinical Research Center, Chiba University Hospital, Chiba, Japan

Masayuki Ota

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Diagnostic Pathology, Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba, Japan

Jun-ichiro Ikeda

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Diagnostic Pathology, Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba, Japan

Ichiro Yoshino

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba, Japan, Department of Thoracic Surgery, International University Health and Welfare School of Medicine, Narita, Japan

Hidemi Suzuki

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.