About the Authors

Ping-Ho Chen

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft

Affiliations School of Dentistry, College of Dental Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Center for Cancer Research, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Li-Yeh Chuang

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Chemical Engineering, I-Shou University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Institute of Biotechnology and Chemical Engineering, I-Shou University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Kuo-Chuan Wu

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Electronic Engineering, National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Kaohsiung University of Sciences and Technology, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Yan-Hsiung Wang

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliations School of Dentistry, College of Dental Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Orthopaedic Research Center, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Tien-Yu Shieh

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Global Center of Excellence for Oral Health Research and Development, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Jim Jinn-Chyuan Sheu

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliations Institute of Biomedical Sciences, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Institute of Biopharmaceutical Sciences, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, School of Chinese Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Health and Nutrition Biotechnology, Asia University, Taichung, Taiwan

Hsueh-Wei Chang

Contributed equally to this work with: Hsueh-Wei Chang, Cheng-Hong Yang

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

changhw@kmu.edu.tw (HWC); chyang@cc.kuas.edu.tw (CHY)

Affiliations Institute of Biomedical Sciences, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Institute of Medical Science and Technology, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Department of Medical Research, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Department of Biomedical Science and Environmental Biology, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Cheng-Hong Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Hsueh-Wei Chang, Cheng-Hong Yang

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

changhw@kmu.edu.tw (HWC); chyang@cc.kuas.edu.tw (CHY)

Affiliations Department of Electronic Engineering, National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Ph. D. Program in Biomedical Engineering, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.