About the Authors

Baoai Han

Contributed equally to this work with: Baoai Han, Xiuping Yang

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software

Affiliation Public Laboratory, Key Laboratory of Breast Cancer Prevention and Therapy, Ministry of Education, Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, National Clinical Research Center for Cancer, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China

Xiuping Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Baoai Han, Xiuping Yang

Roles Formal analysis, Software, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

Po Zhang

Roles Formal analysis, Software

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Ya Zhang

Roles Data curation, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

Yaqin Tu

Roles Formal analysis, Software

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Zuhong He

Roles Software, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Yongqin Li

Roles Methodology, Resources, Software

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Jie Yuan

Roles Software, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Yaodong Dong

Roles Formal analysis, Software

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Davood K. Hosseini

Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Visualization

davoodkh@stanford.edu (DKH); entzt2013@sina.cn (TZ); momo426@stanford.edu (HS)

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Tao Zhou

Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

davoodkh@stanford.edu (DKH); entzt2013@sina.cn (TZ); momo426@stanford.edu (HS)

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Haiying Sun

Roles Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

davoodkh@stanford.edu (DKH); entzt2013@sina.cn (TZ); momo426@stanford.edu (HS)

Affiliations Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.