About the Authors

Jie Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Jie Zhang, Wei Cheng, ZhengGe Wang

Affiliations Centre for Computational Systems Biology, Fudan University, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China, Fudan University-JinLing Hospital Computational Translational Medicine Centre, Fudan University, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China

Wei Cheng

Contributed equally to this work with: Jie Zhang, Wei Cheng, ZhengGe Wang

Affiliation Mathematical Department, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua, Zhejiang Province, People’s Republic of China

ZhengGe Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Jie Zhang, Wei Cheng, ZhengGe Wang

Affiliation Department of Radiology, JinLing Hospital of Nanjing, People’s Republic of China

ZhiQiang Zhang

Affiliation Department of Radiology, JinLing Hospital of Nanjing, People’s Republic of China

WenLian Lu

Affiliations Centre for Computational Systems Biology, Fudan University, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China, Fudan University-JinLing Hospital Computational Translational Medicine Centre, Fudan University, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China

GuangMing Lu

cjr.luguangming@vip.163.com (GL); jianfeng64@gmail.com (JF)

Affiliation Department of Radiology, JinLing Hospital of Nanjing, People’s Republic of China

Jianfeng Feng

cjr.luguangming@vip.163.com (GL); jianfeng64@gmail.com (JF)

Affiliations Centre for Computational Systems Biology, Fudan University, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China, Fudan University-JinLing Hospital Computational Translational Medicine Centre, Fudan University, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China, Department of Computer Science, Warwick University, Coventry, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JFF GML. Performed the experiments: ZGW ZQZ. Analyzed the data: JZ WC WLL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JZ WC WLL ZGW ZQZ GML JFF. Wrote the paper: JZ JFF.