About the Authors

Qiaoling Pan

Roles Conceptualization

☯ Qiaoling Pan, Hang Chen, and Hanbo Pan contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Thoracic surgery, The Affiliated Lihuili Hospital of Ningbo University, Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, P. R. China

Hang Chen

Roles Software

☯ Qiaoling Pan, Hang Chen, and Hanbo Pan contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Thoracic surgery, The Affiliated Lihuili Hospital of Ningbo University, Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, P. R. China

Hanbo Pan

Roles Software

☯ Qiaoling Pan, Hang Chen, and Hanbo Pan contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Shanghai Lung Cancer Center, Shanghai Chest hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, P. R. China

Zeyang Hu

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Health Science Center, Ningbo University, Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, P. R. China

Keyue Qiu

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Health Science Center, Ningbo University, Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, P. R. China

Jiaheng Zhang

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Health Science Center, Ningbo University, Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, P. R. China

Ni Li

Roles Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Thoracic surgery, The Affiliated Lihuili Hospital of Ningbo University, Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, P. R. China

Yinyu Mu

Roles Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Thoracic surgery, The Affiliated Lihuili Hospital of Ningbo University, Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, P. R. China

Keyun Zhu

Roles Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Thoracic surgery, The Affiliated Lihuili Hospital of Ningbo University, Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, P. R. China

Guodong Xu

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition

xuguodong@nbu.edu.cn (GX), sym2505029112@icloud.com (YS)

Affiliation Department of Thoracic surgery, The Affiliated Lihuili Hospital of Ningbo University, Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, P. R. China

Yiming Shen

Roles Writing – original draft

Affiliation Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, P. R. China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.