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aDepartment of Computer Science, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA bDepartment of Economics, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA cDepartment of Family Medicine, E-Da Hospital, I-Shou University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan dSchool of Medicine, College of Medicine, I-Shou University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan eDepartment of General Surgery, E-Da Cancer Hospital, I-Shou University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan fDepartment of Medical Education and Research, E-Da Cancer Hospital, I-Shou University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan Sponsorships or competing interests that may be relevant to content are disclosed at the end of this article. Published online ■ ■ *Corresponding Author. Address: No.21, Yi-Da Road, Jiao-Su Village, Yan-Chao District, Kaohsiung, 824, Taiwan. Tel: 886-76150022. Fax: 886-76150940. E-mail address: [email protected] (C-Chi. Chiu). This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (CCBY), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/