About the Authors

Chieko Baba

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Urology, Graduate School of Medicine, Yamaguchi University, Ube, Yamaguchi, Japan

Hiroshi Hirata

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

hiro1333@yamaguchi-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Urology, Graduate School of Medicine, Yamaguchi University, Ube, Yamaguchi, Japan

Koichiro Hiyoshi

Roles Data curation, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Urology, Graduate School of Medicine, Yamaguchi University, Ube, Yamaguchi, Japan

Takanori Tokunaga

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Urology, Graduate School of Medicine, Yamaguchi University, Ube, Yamaguchi, Japan

Nakanori Fujii

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Urology, Graduate School of Medicine, Yamaguchi University, Ube, Yamaguchi, Japan

Kosuke Shimizu

Roles Methodology, Supervision, Validation

Affiliation Department of Urology, Graduate School of Medicine, Yamaguchi University, Ube, Yamaguchi, Japan

Keita Kobayashi

Roles Supervision, Validation

Affiliation Department of Urology, Graduate School of Medicine, Yamaguchi University, Ube, Yamaguchi, Japan

Takahide Hayano

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Supervision

Affiliations Department of Systems Bioinformatics, Graduate School of Medicine, Yamaguchi University, Yamaguchi, Japan, The Division of Systems Medicine and Informatics, Research Institute for Cell Design, Medical Science, Yamaguchi University, Yamaguchi, Japan

Yoshiyuki Asai

Roles Data curation, Supervision, Validation

Affiliations Department of Systems Bioinformatics, Graduate School of Medicine, Yamaguchi University, Yamaguchi, Japan, AI Systems Medicine Research and Training Center, Graduate School of Medicine and University Hospital, Yamaguchi University, Yamaguchi, Japan, The Division of Systems Medicine and Informatics, Research Institute for Cell Design, Medical Science, Yamaguchi University, Yamaguchi, Japan

Koji Shiraishi

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Urology, Graduate School of Medicine, Yamaguchi University, Ube, Yamaguchi, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.