Se Jin Nam: Role: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole:
ResourcesRole: ValidationRole: VisualizationRole: Writing – original draft
Jin Young Kwak: Role: Writing – review & editing
Hee Jung Moon: Role: Writing – review & editing
Jung Hyun Yoon: Role: Writing – review & editing
Eun-Kyung Kim:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3368-5013
Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole:
MethodologyRole: Project administrationRole: ResourcesRole: SupervisionRole: ValidationRole:
Writing – original draft
Ja Seung Koo: Role: InvestigationRole: Resources
Fernando Schmitt: Role: Editor
Journal ID (nlm-ta): PLoS One
Journal ID (iso-abbrev): PLoS ONE
Journal ID (publisher-id): plos
Journal ID (pmc): plosone
Title:
PLoS ONE
Publisher:
Public Library of Science
(San Francisco, CA USA
)
ISSN
(Electronic):
1932-6203
Publication date
(Electronic):
12
October
2017
Publication date Collection: 2017
Volume: 12
Issue: 10
Electronic Location Identifier: e0186242
Affiliations
[1
]
Department of Radiology, Severance Hospital, Research Institute of Radiological Science,
Yonsei University, College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
[2
]
Department of Pathology, Severance Hospital, Yonsei University, College of Medicine,
Seoul, Korea
University of Toronto, CANADA
Author notes
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
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Current address: Department of Radiology, Dongtan Sacred Heart Hospital, Hallym University,
College of Medicine, Hwaseong, Korea
Author information
Article
Publisher ID:
PONE-D-17-17609
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0186242
PMC ID: 5638398
PubMed ID: 29023564
SO-VID: 33392bea-eb88-4e7b-88c7-ddcb5fee97d3
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