About the Authors

Raghu S. Pandurangi

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

raghuaa66@yahoo.com

Affiliation Sci-Engi-Medco Solutions Inc., St Charles, Missouri, United States of America

Marco Tomasetti

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Clinical and Molecular Sciences, Section of Experimental and Occupational Medicine, Polytechnic University of Marche, Ancona, Italy

Sekar T. Verapazham

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford (MIPS), Canary Center for Cancer Early Detection, Department of Radiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California, United States of America

Ramasamy Paulmurugan

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford (MIPS), Canary Center for Cancer Early Detection, Department of Radiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California, United States of America

Cynthia Ma

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Visualization

Affiliation Siteman Cancer Center, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Sandeep Rajput

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Siteman Cancer Center, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Manjushree Anjanappa

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

Harikrishna Nakshatri

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

Competing Interests

The corresponding author, on behalf of all authors declares no competing financial or non-financial interest. Affiliation does not alter our adherence to all PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.