About the Authors

Yufang Qin

Contributed equally to this work with: Yufang Qin, Weiwei Zhang

Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations College of Information Technology, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, China, Key Laboratory of Fisheries Information Ministry of Agriculture, Shanghai, China

Weiwei Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yufang Qin, Weiwei Zhang

Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology

Affiliation School of Science, East China University of Technology, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China

Xiaoqiang Sun

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China

Siwei Nan

Roles Software

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, China

Nana Wei

Roles Software

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, China

Hua-Jun Wu

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Xiaoqi Zheng

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

xqzheng@shnu.edu.cn

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.