About the Authors

Li Xu

Affiliation Department of Radiology, Guangdong Provincial Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital & postdoctoral mobile research station of Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, People’s Republic of China

Shiyong Gu

Affiliation Biomedical Engineering School of the Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, People’s Republic of China

Qianjin Feng

1271992826@qq.com (QF); shermansheen@gmail.com (SXX)

Affiliation Biomedical Engineering School of the Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, People’s Republic of China

Changhong Liang

Affiliation Department of Radiology, Guangdong General Hospital, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, People’s Republic of China

Sherman Xuegang Xin

1271992826@qq.com (QF); shermansheen@gmail.com (SXX)

Affiliations Biomedical Engineering School of the Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, People’s Republic of China, Bernard and Irene Schwartz Center for Biomedical Imaging, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

No competing interests.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LX SXX. Performed the experiments: LX. Analyzed the data: LX SG SXX. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LX CL. Wrote the paper: LX QF SXX.