About the Authors

Tomoko Shimoda

Contributed equally to this work with: Tomoko Shimoda, Torahiko Okubo

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Fundamental Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

Torahiko Okubo

Contributed equally to this work with: Tomoko Shimoda, Torahiko Okubo

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Department of Medical Laboratory Science, Faculty of Health Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

Yoshiki Enoeda

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Fundamental Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

Rika Yano

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation

Affiliation Department of Fundamental Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

Shinji Nakamura

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Visualization

Affiliation Laboratory of Morphology and Image Analysis, Biomedical Research Center, Juntendo University Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Jeewan Thapa

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medical Laboratory Science, Faculty of Health Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

Hiroyuki Yamaguchi

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

hiroyuki@med.hokudai.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Medical Laboratory Science, Faculty of Health Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.