About the Authors

Laura E. Lamb

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

Affiliations Department of Urology, Beaumont Health System, Royal Oak, MI, United States of America, Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine, Rochester Hills, MI, United States of America

Joseph J. Janicki

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Underactive Bladder Foundation, Pittsburgh, PA, United States of America

Sarah N. Bartolone

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Urology, Beaumont Health System, Royal Oak, MI, United States of America

Kenneth M. Peters

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Urology, Beaumont Health System, Royal Oak, MI, United States of America, Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine, Rochester Hills, MI, United States of America

Michael B. Chancellor

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Michael.Chancellor@Beaumont.Org

Affiliations Department of Urology, Beaumont Health System, Royal Oak, MI, United States of America, Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine, Rochester Hills, MI, United States of America

Competing Interests

LEL, JJJ, and MBC have intellectual property associated with methods for diagnosing interstitial cystitis. All other authors have declared no conflicts of interest exist. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.