About the Authors

Lianxia Li

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

Affiliations UNC Kidney Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Carolina Center for Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Unimunkh Uriyanghai

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

Affiliation UNC Kidney Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Christine Wai

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

Affiliation UNC Kidney Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Hong Yuan

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

Affiliations Department of Radiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Biomedical Research Imaging Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Eric W. Livingston

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

Affiliation Biomedical Research Imaging Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Edward M. Bahnson

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

Affiliations UNC Kidney Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Cell Biology and Physiology. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, McAllister Heart Institute, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Vinay Sudarsanam

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

Affiliation UNC Kidney Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Samuel Haddad

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

Affiliation UNC Kidney Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Prabir Roy-Chaudhury

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

Affiliations UNC Kidney Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, WG (Bill) Hefner VA Medical Center, Salisbury, North Carolina, United States of America

Boyce E. Griffith

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

boyceg@email.unc.edu (BEG); gang_xi@med.unc.edu (GX)

Affiliations Carolina Center for Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, McAllister Heart Institute, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Mathematics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Computational Medicine Program, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Gang Xi

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

boyceg@email.unc.edu (BEG); gang_xi@med.unc.edu (GX)

Affiliation UNC Kidney Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.