About the Authors

Takashi Shuto

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

shutot@oita-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Oita University Hospital, Yufu, Oita, Japan

Ryuji Higashita

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Yokohama General Hospital, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Hidenori Sako

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Oita Oka Hospital, Oita, Oita, Japan

Fumie Abe

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Development Promotion, Clinical Research, Innovation and Education Center (CRIETO), Tohoku University Hospital, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan

Nozomi Yabuuchi

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Development Promotion, Clinical Research, Innovation and Education Center (CRIETO), Tohoku University Hospital, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan

Tadashi Umeno

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Oita University Hospital, Yufu, Oita, Japan

Kazuki Mori

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Oita University Hospital, Yufu, Oita, Japan

Takayuki Kawashima

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Oita University Hospital, Yufu, Oita, Japan

Yumiko Nakashima

Roles Project administration

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Oita University Hospital, Yufu, Oita, Japan

Yasuhide Nakayama

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation Osaka Laboratory, Biotube Co., Ltd. 302 Kansai University Center for Innovation and Creativity, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Shinji Miyamoto

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Oita University Hospital, Yufu, Oita, Japan

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests:YN (Yasuhide Nakayama) and RH (Ryuji Higashita) are employees and stockholders of Biotube Co., Ltd. The other authors declare that they have no competing interests. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.