About the Authors
- Akitoshi Nankaku
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan
- Masanori Tokunaga
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Roles Data curation, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: tokunaga.srg1@tmd.ac.jp
Affiliation Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan
- Hiroki Yonezawa
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Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft
Affiliation Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan
- Takahiro Kanno
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Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft
Affiliation Riverfield Corporation, Tokyo, Japan
- Kenji Kawashima
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Roles Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations Riverfield Corporation, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Information Physics and Computing, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Kenichi Hakamada
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Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Hirosaki University, Aomori, Japan
- Satoshi Hirano
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Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Gastroenterological Surgery II, Hokkaido University Faculty of Medicine, Hokkaido, Japan
- Eiji Oki
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Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
- Masaki Mori
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Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Tokai University School of Medicine, Kanagawa, Japan
- Yusuke Kinugasa
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Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan
Competing Interests
I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: Drs. Akitoshi Nankaku, Hiroki Yonezawa, Kenichi Hakamada, Satoshi Hirano, Eiji Oki and Masaki Mori have no conflicts of interest or financial ties to disclose. Dr. Masanori Tokunaga and Dr. Yusuke Kinugasa have received consulting fees from Riverfield Inc. Dr. Takahiro Kanno is employed by Riverfield Inc. as Chief Technology Officer. Dr. Kenji Kawashima is a founder of Riverfield Inc. and owns stock in Riverfield Inc. These interests do not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.