About the Authors

Yu-Chen Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Yu-Chen Liu, Chi-Sheng Hung

Affiliations Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital and National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Internal Medicine, Far Eastern Poly Clinic, Taipei, Taiwan

Chi-Sheng Hung

Contributed equally to this work with: Yu-Chen Liu, Chi-Sheng Hung

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital and National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan

Yen-Wen Wu

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Far Eastern Poly Clinic, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Medical Imaging and Cardiology Division of Cardiovascular Medical Center, Far Eastern Memorial Hospital, New Taipei City, Taiwan, National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, Departments of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Yi-Chin Lee

Affiliation Division of Biomedical Statistics, Graduate Institute of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Yen-Hung Lin

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital and National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan

Chen Lin

Affiliations Center for Dynamical Biomarkers and Translation Medicine, National Central University, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Research Center for Adaptive Data Analysis, National Central University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Men-Tzung Lo

Affiliations Center for Dynamical Biomarkers and Translation Medicine, National Central University, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Research Center for Adaptive Data Analysis, National Central University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Chun-Chieh Chan

Affiliation Department of Electrical Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

Hsi-Pin Ma

Affiliation Department of Electrical Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

Yi-Lwun Ho

ylho@ntu.edu.tw

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital and National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan

Chien-Hung Chen

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital and National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: Y-C. Liu Y-LH Y-HL C-HC. Performed the experiments: Y-C. Liu Y-WW CL M-TL C-CC H-PM. Analyzed the data: Y-C. Liu C-SH Y-C. Lee. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: Y-WW CL M-TL C-CC H-PM Y-C. Lee. Wrote the paper: Y-LH Y-C. Liu C-SH.