About the Authors

Niels Halama

Affiliations Medical Oncology, National Center for Tumor Diseases, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, Hamamatsu Tissue Imaging and Analysis (TIGA) Center, Institute for Medical Biometry and Informatics, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Inka Zoernig

Affiliation Medical Oncology, National Center for Tumor Diseases, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Anna Spille

Affiliation Medical Oncology, National Center for Tumor Diseases, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Kathi Westphal

Affiliation Hamamatsu Tissue Imaging and Analysis (TIGA) Center, Institute for Medical Biometry and Informatics, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Peter Schirmacher

Affiliation Institute of Pathology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Dirk Jaeger

Contributed equally to this work with: Dirk Jaeger, Niels Grabe

Affiliation Medical Oncology, National Center for Tumor Diseases, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Niels Grabe

Contributed equally to this work with: Dirk Jaeger, Niels Grabe

Niels.Grabe@bioquant.uni-heidelberg.de

Affiliation Hamamatsu Tissue Imaging and Analysis (TIGA) Center, Institute for Medical Biometry and Informatics, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NH IZ NG. Performed the experiments: NH AS. Analyzed the data: NH IZ KW PS DJ NG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PS DJ NG. Wrote the paper: NH NG.