About the Authors

Jianfa Ou

Roles Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Yingnan Si

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

KahYong Goh

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Norio Yasui

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Radiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Yichen Guo

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Jiajia Song

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Lizhong Wang

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Renata Jaskula-Sztul

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Jinda Fan

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Radiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Lufang Zhou

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Runhua Liu

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Xiaoguang Liu

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

mliu@uab.edu

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.