About the Authors

Ling Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Ling Li, Linke Li

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

Affiliation Department of Radiotherapy, Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Medical University, Zhanjiang, Guangdong, China

Linke Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Ling Li, Linke Li

Roles Data curation

Affiliation School of Medical Imaging, Laboratory and Rehabilitation, Xiangnan University, Chenzhou, Hunan, China

Ruifeng Guo

Roles Investigation

‡ SF, KW, and GY also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Radiotherapy, Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Medical University, Zhanjiang, Guangdong, China

Shiting Fang

Roles Software

‡ SF, KW, and GY also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Radiotherapy, Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Medical University, Zhanjiang, Guangdong, China

Ke Wang

Roles Investigation, Project administration

‡ SF, KW, and GY also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Radiotherapy, Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Medical University, Zhanjiang, Guangdong, China

Ge Yuan

Roles Data curation

‡ SF, KW, and GY also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Radiotherapy, Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Medical University, Zhanjiang, Guangdong, China

Danxian Jiang

Roles Supervision, Validation

fyjiangdanxian@163.com (DJ); hj841023@163.com (JH)

Affiliation Department of Radiotherapy, Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Medical University, Zhanjiang, Guangdong, China

Jing Huang

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

fyjiangdanxian@163.com (DJ); hj841023@163.com (JH)

Affiliation Department of Head and Neck Oncology, Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Medical University, Zhanjiang, Guangdong, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.