About the Authors

Hyunwoo Kim

Contributed equally to this work with: Hyunwoo Kim, Joon-Goon Kim

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, 34141, Republic of Korea

Joon-Goon Kim

Contributed equally to this work with: Hyunwoo Kim, Joon-Goon Kim

Roles Visualization, Writing – original draft, Methodology, Conceptualization

Affiliation Graduate School of Medical Science and Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, 34141, Republic of Korea

Jueun Sim

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, 34141, Republic of Korea

Hoyeon Nam

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, 34141, Republic of Korea

In Cho

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, 34141, Republic of Korea

Hyejin Shin

Roles Validation, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, 34141, Republic of Korea

Junyoung Kwon

Roles Visualization

Affiliation Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, 34141, Republic of Korea

Dae-Hyeon Song

Roles Visualization

Affiliation Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, 34141, Republic of Korea

Seoungbin Bae

Roles Software

Affiliation School of Electrical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, 34141, Republic of Korea

Young-Gyu Yoon

Roles Supervision, Software

ygyoon@kaist.ac.kr (Y-GY); taeyun@kaist.ac.kr (TK); jbchang03@kaist.ac.kr (J-BC)

Affiliation School of Electrical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, 34141, Republic of Korea

Taeyun Ku

Roles Supervision, Writing – original draft, Methodology

ygyoon@kaist.ac.kr (Y-GY); taeyun@kaist.ac.kr (TK); jbchang03@kaist.ac.kr (J-BC)

Affiliations Graduate School of Medical Science and Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, 34141, Republic of Korea, KAIST Institute for Health Science and Technology, Daejeon, 34141, Republic of Korea

Jae-Byum Chang

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

ygyoon@kaist.ac.kr (Y-GY); taeyun@kaist.ac.kr (TK); jbchang03@kaist.ac.kr (J-BC)

Affiliations Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, 34141, Republic of Korea, Department of Biological Sciences, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, 34141, Republic of Korea

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal’s policy and the following competing interests: J.-B.C., J.S., Y.-G.Y., and I.C. are co-inventors on patent applications for high accuracy image registration. H.K., H.N., S.B., Y.-G.Y., and J.-B.C. are co-inventors on patent applications for a multiplexed imaging technique. I.C., J.-B.C., and Y.-G.Y. are co-founders, shareholders, and employers of a company specializing in various imaging services; this research was conducted independently and is not affiliated with the company. J.-G.K., H.S., J.K., D.-H.S., and T.K. have declared that no competing interests exist.