About the Authors

Micaela Morettini

Affiliation Department of Information Engineering, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy

Emanuela Faelli

Affiliation Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy

Luisa Perasso

Affiliation Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy

Sandro Fioretti

Affiliation Department of Information Engineering, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy

Laura Burattini

Affiliation Department of Information Engineering, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy

Piero Ruggeri

Contributed equally to this work with: Piero Ruggeri, Francesco Di Nardo

Affiliation Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy

Francesco Di Nardo

Contributed equally to this work with: Piero Ruggeri, Francesco Di Nardo

f.dinardo@univpm.it

Affiliation Department of Information Engineering, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: MM FDN PR. Data curation: MM FDN LB SF. Formal analysis: MM FDN LB SF. Investigation: PR EF LP. Methodology: MM FDN. Project administration: PR FDN LB. Resources: MM FDN LB SF EF LP PR. Software: MM FDN. Validation: MM FDN. Visualization: MM FDN. Writing – original draft: MM FDN. Writing – review & editing: MM FDN PR.