About the Authors

Jieyu Zhao

Roles Writing – original draft

Affiliation Faculty of Health Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

Kota Kurisu

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Faculty of Medicine and Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan, Division of Advanced Stroke Therapy and Health Economics, Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

Kazuki Ohashi

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Faculty of Health Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

Toshiya Osanai

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation

osanait@med.hokudai.ac.jp (TO); oga@hs.hokudai.ac.jp (KO)

Affiliations Faculty of Medicine and Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan, Division of Advanced Stroke Therapy and Health Economics, Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

Katsuhiko Ogasawara

Roles Supervision

osanait@med.hokudai.ac.jp (TO); oga@hs.hokudai.ac.jp (KO)

Affiliations Faculty of Health Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan, Graduate School of Engineering, Muroran Institute of Technology, Muroran, Hokkaido, Japan

Miki Fujimura

Roles Supervision

Affiliations Faculty of Medicine and Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan, Division of Advanced Stroke Therapy and Health Economics, Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.