About the Authors

Wen Qin

Contributed equally to this work with: Wen Qin, Yong Liu

Affiliation Department of Radiology, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, Tianjin, China

Yong Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Wen Qin, Yong Liu

Affiliation LIAMA Center for Computational Medicine, National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Tianzi Jiang

chunshuiyu@yahoo.cn (CY); jiangtz@nlpr.ia.ac.cn (TJ)

Affiliation LIAMA Center for Computational Medicine, National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Chunshui Yu

chunshuiyu@yahoo.cn (CY); jiangtz@nlpr.ia.ac.cn (TJ)

Affiliations Department of Radiology, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, Tianjin, China, Department of Radiology, Xuanwu Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CY TJ WQ. Performed the experiments: WQ CY YL. Analyzed the data: WQ YL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WQ YL. Wrote the paper: WQ YL CY TJ.