1. Department of Thoracic Surgery, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China
2. Department of Thoracic Surgery, The Sixth People’s Hospital of Nantong, Jiang Su, People’s Republic of China
3. Department of Radiology, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China
4. Department of Medicine, Saint Vincent Hospital, Worcester, Massachusetts
5. Department of Medical Statistics, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China
6. Clinical and Translational Science Institute, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York
7. Department of Thoracic Diseases, National Cancer Institute, Pascale Foundation, Naples, Italy
8. Division of Epidemiology, Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
9. Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Koo Foundation Sun Yat-Sen Cancer Center, Taipei, Taiwan
10. Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark
11. Department of Surgery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, New Town, Hong Kong
12. Fox Valley Pulmonary Medicine, Appleton, Wisconsin
13. Division of Engineering in Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
14. Department of Advanced Biomedical Sciences, Adult and Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy