About the Authors

Pei-Yu Hsu

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Imaging and Radiological Science, China Medical University, Taichung, 404, Taiwan

Ming-Tzu Tsai

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, Hungkuang University, Taichung, Taiwan, 433, ROC

Shun-Ping Wang

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, 407, Taiwan

Ying-Ju Chen

Affiliation Department of Food and Nutrition, Providence University, Taichung, 433, Taiwan

Jay Wu

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Imaging and Radiological Sciences, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, 112, ROC

Jui-Ting Hsu

jthsu@mail.cmu.edu.tw; richard@ms32.url.com.tw

Affiliations School of Dentistry, College of Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, 404, Taiwan, Department of Bioinformatics and Medical Engineering, Asia University. Taichung, 413, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PYH SPW YJC JTH. Performed the experiments: PYH MTT SPW YJC JTH. Analyzed the data: PYH JW JTH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PYH MTT SPW YJC JW JTH. Wrote the paper: PYH JTH.