About the Authors

Ting Xue

Contributed equally to this work with: Ting Xue, Kai Yuan

Affiliation Life Sciences Research Center, School of Life Sciences and Technology, Xidian University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

Kai Yuan

Contributed equally to this work with: Ting Xue, Kai Yuan

Affiliation Life Sciences Research Center, School of Life Sciences and Technology, Xidian University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

Ling Zhao

Affiliation The 3rd Teaching Hospital, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

Dahua Yu

Affiliations Life Sciences Research Center, School of Life Sciences and Technology, Xidian University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China, Information Processing Laboratory, School of Information Engineering, Inner Mongolia University of Science and Technology, Baotou, Inner Mongolia, China

Limei Zhao

Affiliation Life Sciences Research Center, School of Life Sciences and Technology, Xidian University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

Tao Dong

Affiliation Life Sciences Research Center, School of Life Sciences and Technology, Xidian University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

Ping Cheng

Affiliation Life Sciences Research Center, School of Life Sciences and Technology, Xidian University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

Karen M. von Deneen

Affiliation Life Sciences Research Center, School of Life Sciences and Technology, Xidian University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

Wei Qin

wqin@xidian.edu.cn (WQ); tian@ieee.org (JT)

Affiliation Life Sciences Research Center, School of Life Sciences and Technology, Xidian University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

Jie Tian

wqin@xidian.edu.cn (WQ); tian@ieee.org (JT)

Affiliations Life Sciences Research Center, School of Life Sciences and Technology, Xidian University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China, Intelligent Medical Research Center, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TX KY WQ JT. Performed the experiments: TX KY Ling Zhao DY. Analyzed the data: TX KY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: Limei Zhao TD PC. Wrote the paper: TX KMVD.