About the Authors

Indrani Dasgupta

Affiliation School of Biomedical Informatics, The University of Texas Health Sciences Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Eric A. Tanifum

Affiliation Department of Pediatric Radiology, Texas Children′s Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Mayank Srivastava

Affiliation Department of Pediatric Radiology, Texas Children′s Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Sharangdhar S. Phatak

Affiliation School of Biomedical Informatics, The University of Texas Health Sciences Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Claudio N. Cavasotto

Affiliation School of Biomedical Informatics, The University of Texas Health Sciences Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Mostafa Analoui

Affiliation Cense Biosciences Inc., Manvel, Texas, United States of America

Ananth Annapragada

avannapr@texaschildrenshospital.org

Affiliation Department of Pediatric Radiology, Texas Children′s Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors wish to declare the following potential conflict of interest: Funding received from Cense Biosciences Inc., as a subcontract from National Institutes of Health grant 1R43DK083819-01 was used for the studies reported in this paper. AA is a significant shareholder in Cense Biosciences. A provisional patent application has also been filed on some of the materials described in this manuscript. The application number is US application number 61448556. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ID MS ET CC MA AA. Performed the experiments: ID MS ET SP. Analyzed the data: ID MS ET SP. Wrote the paper: ID ET SP AA.