About the Authors

Song-Yao Zhang

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Information Fusion Technology of Ministry of Education, School of Automation, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Shao-Wu Zhang

Roles Project administration, Supervision

zhangsw@nwpu.edu.cn (SWZ); yufei.huang@utsa.edu (YH)

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Information Fusion Technology of Ministry of Education, School of Automation, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China

Xiao-Nan Fan

Roles Data curation, Validation

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Information Fusion Technology of Ministry of Education, School of Automation, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China

Jia Meng

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Software

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, HRINU, SUERI, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China

Yidong Chen

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Texas Health San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Shou-Jiang Gao

Roles Data curation, Software, Validation

Affiliation UPMC Hillman Cancer Center and Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Yufei Huang

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

zhangsw@nwpu.edu.cn (SWZ); yufei.huang@utsa.edu (YH)

Affiliations Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Texas Health San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.