About the Authors

Chenglei Sun

Affiliations Institute of Systems Biology, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China, School of Communication and Information Engineering, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China

Zheng-Zheng Shi

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

Xiaobo Zhou

XZhou@tmhs.org (XZ); lnchen@sibs.ac.cn (LC); zhaoxingming@gmail.com (XMZ)

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

Luonan Chen

XZhou@tmhs.org (XZ); lnchen@sibs.ac.cn (LC); zhaoxingming@gmail.com (XMZ)

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Systems Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China

Xing-Ming Zhao

XZhou@tmhs.org (XZ); lnchen@sibs.ac.cn (LC); zhaoxingming@gmail.com (XMZ)

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XMZ ZZS XZ. Performed the experiments: CS. Analyzed the data: XMZ ZZS XZ CS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ZZS CS. Wrote the paper: XMZ ZZS CS. Participated in system design and provided valuable comments: XMZ ZZS XZ LC.