About the Authors

Johane H. Bracamonte

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Lionel Watkins

Roles Formal analysis, Software, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

Betty Pat

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources

Affiliations Birmingham Veterans Affairs Health Care System, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, Division of Cardiovascular Disease, Heersink School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Louis J. Dell’Italia

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Birmingham Veterans Affairs Health Care System, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, Division of Cardiovascular Disease, Heersink School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Jeffrey J. Saucerman

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

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

Jeffrey W. Holmes

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

holmesjw@uab.edu

Affiliations Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, Division of Cardiovascular Disease, Heersink School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Heersink School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.