About the Authors

Huiming Peng

Affiliations Department of Radiology, The Methodist Hospital Research Institute and Weill Cornell Medical College, Houston, Texas, United States of America, School of Mathematics and Physics, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, Hubei, P. R. China

Jianguo Wen

Affiliation Department of Pathology, The Methodist Hospital Research Institute and Weill Cornell Medical College, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Hongwei Li

Affiliation School of Mathematics and Physics, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, Hubei, P. R. China

Jeff Chang

Affiliation Department of Pathology, The Methodist Hospital Research Institute and Weill Cornell Medical College, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Xiaobo Zhou

XZhou@tmhs.org

Affiliation Department of Radiology, The Methodist Hospital Research Institute and Weill Cornell Medical College, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JW JC XZ. Performed the experiments: JW. Analyzed the data: HP JC XZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HP HL XZ. Wrote the paper: HP.