About the Authors

Cheng-Ying Chou

Affiliation Department of Bio-Industrial Mechatronics Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Yun Dong

Contributed equally to this work with: Yun Dong, Yukai Hung

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Yukai Hung

Contributed equally to this work with: Yun Dong, Yukai Hung

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Yu-Jiun Kao

Affiliation Department of Bio-Industrial Mechatronics Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Weichung Wang

wwang@ntu.edu.tw

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Chien-Min Kao

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Radiology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Chin-Tu Chen

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Radiology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CYC WW CMK CTC. Performed the experiments: YJK. Analyzed the data: CYC WW. Wrote the paper: CYC WW. Developed sequential codes: YD. Developed GPU code: YH.