About the Authors

Xiaofen Ma

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaofen Ma, Junzhang Tian

Affiliation Department of Medical Imaging, Guangdong Provincial No.2 People’s Hospital, Guangzhou City, Guangdong province, PR China

Junzhang Tian

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaofen Ma, Junzhang Tian

Affiliation Department of Medical Imaging, Guangdong Provincial No.2 People’s Hospital, Guangzhou City, Guangdong province, PR China

Zhanhong Wu

Affiliation Biomedical Research Imaging Center and Department of Radiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Xiaopeng Zong

Affiliation Biomedical Research Imaging Center and Department of Radiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Jianwei Dong

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangzhou City, Guangdong province, PR China

Wenfeng Zhan

Affiliation Department of Medical Imaging, Guangdong Provincial No.2 People’s Hospital, Guangzhou City, Guangdong province, PR China

Yikai Xu

Affiliation Department of Medical Imaging Center, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou City, Guangdong province, PR China

Zibo Li

jiangguihua177@163.com (GJ); zibo_li@med.unc.edu (ZL)

Affiliation Biomedical Research Imaging Center and Department of Radiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Guihua Jiang

jiangguihua177@163.com (GJ); zibo_li@med.unc.edu (ZL)

Affiliation Department of Medical Imaging, Guangdong Provincial No.2 People’s Hospital, Guangzhou City, Guangdong province, PR China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Formal analysis: XM JD. Funding acquisition: GJ. Investigation: YX. Methodology: XM GJ JD WZ JT XZ. Project administration: XM JT ZW. Software: XM GJ JD WZ JT XZ. Supervision: GJ ZL. Writing – original draft: XM.