Itoh, Hayato https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1410-1078
Nimura, Yukitaka
Mori, Yuichi
Misawa, Masashi
Kudo, Shin-Ei
Hotta, Kinichi
Ohtsuka, Kazuo
Saito, Shoichi
Saito, Yutaka
Ikematsu, Hiroaki
Hayashi, Yuichiro
Oda, Masahiro
Mori, Kensaku
Funding for this research was provided by:
Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (19hs0110006h0003)
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (26108006, 17H00867)
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (17K20099, Bilateral Joint Research Project)
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (19K08403)
Article History
Received: 22 January 2020
Accepted: 2 September 2020
First Online: 16 September 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Kudo SE, Misawa M, and Mori Y received lecture fees from Olympus. Ohtsuka K reports personal fees and nonfinancial support from Olympus outside of this work. Mori K is supported by Cybernet Systems and Olympus (Research Grant) in this work, and by NTT outside of the submitted work. The other authors have no conflicts of interest.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical committee of Nagoya University (No. 351, 357) and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. Informed consent was obtained via an opt-out procedure from all individual participants included in the study.