About the Authors

Baiying Lei

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Medicine, Shenzhen University, National-Regional Key Technology Engineering Laboratory for Medical Ultrasound, Guangdong Key Laboratory for Biomedical Measurements and Ultrasound Imaging, Nanhai Ave 3688, Shenzhen, Guangdong, P. R. China, 518060

Ee-Leng Tan

Affiliation School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 639798, Singapore

Siping Chen

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Medicine, Shenzhen University, National-Regional Key Technology Engineering Laboratory for Medical Ultrasound, Guangdong Key Laboratory for Biomedical Measurements and Ultrasound Imaging, Nanhai Ave 3688, Shenzhen, Guangdong, P. R. China, 518060

Liu Zhuo

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Medicine, Shenzhen University, National-Regional Key Technology Engineering Laboratory for Medical Ultrasound, Guangdong Key Laboratory for Biomedical Measurements and Ultrasound Imaging, Nanhai Ave 3688, Shenzhen, Guangdong, P. R. China, 518060

Shengli Li

Affiliation Department of Ultrasound, Affiliated Shenzhen Maternal and Child Healthcare, Hospital of Nanfang Medical University, Shenzhen, China

Dong Ni

nidong@szu.edu.cn (DN); tfwang@szu.edu.cn (TW)

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Medicine, Shenzhen University, National-Regional Key Technology Engineering Laboratory for Medical Ultrasound, Guangdong Key Laboratory for Biomedical Measurements and Ultrasound Imaging, Nanhai Ave 3688, Shenzhen, Guangdong, P. R. China, 518060

Tianfu Wang

nidong@szu.edu.cn (DN); tfwang@szu.edu.cn (TW)

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Medicine, Shenzhen University, National-Regional Key Technology Engineering Laboratory for Medical Ultrasound, Guangdong Key Laboratory for Biomedical Measurements and Ultrasound Imaging, Nanhai Ave 3688, Shenzhen, Guangdong, P. R. China, 518060

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BYL LZ SLL ELT SPC DN TFW. Performed the experiments: BYL LZ. Analyzed the data: BYL LZ DN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BYL LZ SLL ELT SPC DN TFW. Wrote the paper: BYL LZ SLL ELT SPC DN TFW.