About the Authors

Jacob J. Orme

Affiliation The Department of Internal Medicine Rheumatic Diseases Division, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Yong Du

Affiliations The Department of Internal Medicine Rheumatic Diseases Division, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America, The Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Kamala Vanarsa

Affiliations The Department of Internal Medicine Rheumatic Diseases Division, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America, The Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Tianfu Wu

Affiliations The Department of Internal Medicine Rheumatic Diseases Division, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America, The Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Anne B. Satterthwaite

Affiliation The Department of Internal Medicine Rheumatic Diseases Division, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Chandra Mohan

cmohan@Central.UH.EDU

Affiliations The Department of Internal Medicine Rheumatic Diseases Division, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America, The Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: CM. Data curation: JO YD KV. Formal analysis: JO YD KV TW. Funding acquisition: CM. Investigation: JO YD KV TW AS CM. Methodology: JO YD KV TW AS CM. Project administration: AS CM. Resources: AS CM. Supervision: AS CM. Validation: JO YD KV. Visualization: JO YD KV TW AS CM. Writing - original draft: JO YD KV TW AS CM. Writing - review & editing: JO YD KV TW AS CM.