About the Authors

Xinhua Chen

xchen1@bidmc.harvard.edu

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Guoxun Yang

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Joo-Hye Song

Affiliation Gastrointestinal Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Hua Xu

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Dan Li

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jeffrey Goldsmith

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Huiyan Zeng

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Molecular and Vascular Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Patricia A. Parsons-Wingerter

Affiliation John Glenn NASA Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Hans-Christian Reinecker

Affiliation Gastrointestinal Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Ciaran P. Kelly

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. The patent application entitled “Vessel Generation Analysis” has been filed with the United States Patent Office by NASA and Dr. Patricia Parsons-Wingerter as Lead Innovator. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors by PLOS ONE.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XC HCR CPK. Performed the experiments: XC GY JHS HX DL JG HCR. Analyzed the data: PPW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HZ PPW. Wrote the paper: XC CPK.