About the Authors

Kayoko Urashima

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Neuropsychiatry, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan

Kunihiro Ichinose

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

kichinose@med.shimane-u.ac.jp

Affiliations Department of Immunology and Rheumatology, Division of Advanced Preventive Medical Sciences, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan, Department of Rheumatology, Shimane University Faculty of Medicine, Izumo, Japan

Hideki Ishimaru

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Radiological Sciences, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan

Hirokazu Kumazaki

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Neuropsychiatry, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan

Atsushi Kawakami

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Immunology and Rheumatology, Division of Advanced Preventive Medical Sciences, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan

Masao Ueki

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Information and Data Sciences, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: K.U., K.I., H.I., and M.U. have pending patent applications (PCT/JP2023/005474) based on this work. H.K. and A.K. declare no potential conflict of interest.