About the Authors

Yinyin Zhang

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Third Clinical Medical College, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China

Guoying Wu

Roles Resources, Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

☯ These authors contributed equally: Author Yinyin Zhang;

Affiliation Endoscopy Center, Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Foshan, China

Jialu Hou

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

☯ These authors contributed equally: Author Yinyin Zhang;

Affiliation Clinical Medical College of Acupuncture Moxibustion and Rehabilitation, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China

Yeling Zhong

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Third Clinical Medical College, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China

Yukai Zhang

Roles Conceptualization, Software, Visualization

Affiliation Third Clinical Medical College, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China

Shishuo Xiong

Roles Investigation, Software

Affiliation Third Clinical Medical College, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China

Zehua Guo

Roles Supervision, Validation

Affiliation Third Clinical Medical College, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China

Ying Li

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Software, Writing – review & editing

Y.Li66@outlook.com

Affiliations Third Clinical Medical College, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China, Spine Department, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.