About the Authors

Xuehao Gong

Contributed equally to this work with: Xuehao Gong, Leidan Huang, Xin Liu

Affiliation Department of Ultrasound, First Affiliated Hospital of Shenzhen University, Second People’s Hospital of Shenzhen, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

Leidan Huang

Contributed equally to this work with: Xuehao Gong, Leidan Huang, Xin Liu

Affiliations Department of Ultrasound, First Affiliated Hospital of Shenzhen University, Second People’s Hospital of Shenzhen, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Xin Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Xuehao Gong, Leidan Huang, Xin Liu

Affiliation Institute of Biomedical and Health Engineering, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

Chunyue Li

Affiliation Institute of Biomedical and Health Engineering, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

Xuhua Mao

Affiliations Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, Department of Thyroid and Breast Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital of Shenzhen University, Second People’s Hospital of Shenzhen, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

Weizong Liu

Affiliation Department of Ultrasound, First Affiliated Hospital of Shenzhen University, Second People’s Hospital of Shenzhen, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

Xian Huang

Affiliations Department of Ultrasound, First Affiliated Hospital of Shenzhen University, Second People’s Hospital of Shenzhen, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, China

Haiting Chu

Affiliations Department of Ultrasound, First Affiliated Hospital of Shenzhen University, Second People’s Hospital of Shenzhen, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, China

Yumei Wang

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, Xili People’s Hospital of Shenzhen, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

Wanqing Wu

lucy_youran@sina.com (JL); wq.wu@siat.ac.cn (WW)

Affiliation Institute of Biomedical and Health Engineering, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

Jun Lu

lucy_youran@sina.com (JL); wq.wu@siat.ac.cn (WW)

Affiliation Department of Ultrasound, Second Clinical College of Jinan University, People’s Hospital of Shenzhen, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JL WW. Performed the experiments: YW XL. Analyzed the data: XM XH HC WL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WW CL XL. Wrote the paper: XG LH XL.