About the Authors

Hung-Lung Tsai

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

Affiliations Department of Information, Tungs’ Taichung MetroHarbor Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Doctoral Program in Big Data Analytics for Industrial Applications, College of Science, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan

Kuan-Hung Cheng

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Information, Tungs’ Taichung MetroHarbor Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

Po-Cheng Lin

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Software

Affiliation Institute of Statistics, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan

Ying-Lin Hsu

Roles Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

ylhsu@nchu.edu.tw (YLH), eddielodz@gmail.com (SWC)

Affiliations Institute of Statistics, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Applied Mathematics, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan

Shih-Wei Chen

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

ylhsu@nchu.edu.tw (YLH), eddielodz@gmail.com (SWC)

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology, Tungs’ Taichung MetroHarbor Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors declare no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.