About the Authors

Hemant K. Roy

hkroy@bu.edu

‡ These authors contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Boston University Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Charles B. Brendler

‡ These authors contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Surgery, NorthShore University HealthSystem, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America

Hariharan Subramanian

‡ These authors contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Biomedical Engineering Department, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America

Di Zhang

Affiliation Biomedical Engineering Department, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America

Charles Maneval

Affiliation Biomedical Engineering Department, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America

John Chandler

Affiliation Biomedical Engineering Department, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America

Leah Bowen

Affiliation Biomedical Engineering Department, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America

Karen L. Kaul

Affiliation Department of Pathology, NorthShore University HealthSystem, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America

Brian T. Helfand

Affiliation Department of Surgery, NorthShore University HealthSystem, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America

Chi-Hsiung Wang

Affiliation Department of Surgery, NorthShore University HealthSystem, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America

Margo Quinn

Affiliation Department of Surgery, NorthShore University HealthSystem, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America

Jacqueline Petkewicz

Affiliation Department of Surgery, NorthShore University HealthSystem, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America

Michael Paterakos

Affiliation Department of Pathology, NorthShore University HealthSystem, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America

Vadim Backman

Affiliation Biomedical Engineering Department, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

Drs. Roy, Subramanian and Backman are co-founders of Nanocytomics LLC and managed by the conflict of interest committees of Boston University and Northwestern University. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HR CB HS KK BH VB. Performed the experiments: HS DZ CM JC LB KK BH MQ JP MP. Analyzed the data: HS DZ CM JC LB CW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HS DZ CM JC LB CW KK. Wrote the paper: HR CB HS VB.