About the Authors

Shichao Feng

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, United States of America

Hong-Long Ji

Roles Funding acquisition, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Texas at Tyler, Tyler, Texas, United States of America, Texas Lung Injury Institute, University of Texas at Tyler, Tyler, Texas, United States of America

Huan Wang

Roles Validation

Affiliation College of Informatics, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei, CHINA

Bailu Zhang

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, United States of America

Ryan Sterzenbach

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliations Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, United States of America

Chongle Pan

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

cpan@ou.edu (CP); xuan.guo@unt.edu (XG)

Affiliation School of Computer Science, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, United States of America

Xuan Guo

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

cpan@ou.edu (CP); xuan.guo@unt.edu (XG)

Affiliation Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.