About the Authors

Franco Pradelli

Contributed equally to this work with: Franco Pradelli, Giovanni Minervini

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

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Padova, Padova, Italy

Giovanni Minervini

Contributed equally to this work with: Franco Pradelli, Giovanni Minervini

Roles Conceptualization, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Padova, Padova, Italy

Pradeep Venkatesh

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Dr. RP Centre for Ophthalmic Sciences, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

Shorya Azad

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Dr. RP Centre for Ophthalmic Sciences, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

Hector Gomez

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America, Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America, Purdue Center for Cancer Research, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Silvio C. E. Tosatto

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

silvio.tosatto@unipd.it

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Padova, Padova, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.