About the Authors

Emilia Benevento

Affiliation Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department, Concordia University, Montreal, Québec, Canada

Abdelghani Djebbari

Affiliation University Abou Bekr Belkaid, Tlemcen, Algeria

Zahra Keshavarz-Motamed

lcfd@encs.concordia.ca

Affiliations Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department, Concordia University, Montreal, Québec, Canada, Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Laval University, Québec, Québec, Canada

Renzo Cecere

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Division of Cardiac Surgery, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Lyes Kadem

Affiliation Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department, Concordia University, Montreal, Québec, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZKM LK RC. Performed the experiments: EB AD ZKM. Analyzed the data: EB AD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LK ZKM. Wrote the paper: EB ZKM LK. Interpreted the data: EB AD ZKM LK RC.