About the Authors

Kerry E. Poppenberg

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Canon Stroke and Vascular Research Center, Buffalo, New York, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America, Department of Neurosurgery, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Lu Li

Roles Formal analysis, Software

Affiliation Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Muhammad Waqas

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Nikhil Paliwal

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliations Canon Stroke and Vascular Research Center, Buffalo, New York, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Kaiyu Jiang

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Genetics, Genomics, and Bioinformatics Program, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

James N. Jarvis

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Genetics, Genomics, and Bioinformatics Program, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Yijun Sun

Roles Methodology, Supervision

Affiliations Genetics, Genomics, and Bioinformatics Program, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Kenneth V. Snyder

Roles Data curation

Affiliations Canon Stroke and Vascular Research Center, Buffalo, New York, United States of America, Department of Neurosurgery, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America, Department of Radiology, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America, Department of Neurology, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Elad I. Levy

Roles Data curation

Affiliations Canon Stroke and Vascular Research Center, Buffalo, New York, United States of America, Department of Neurosurgery, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America, Department of Radiology, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Adnan H. Siddiqui

Roles Data curation

Affiliations Canon Stroke and Vascular Research Center, Buffalo, New York, United States of America, Department of Neurosurgery, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America, Department of Radiology, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

John Kolega

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Canon Stroke and Vascular Research Center, Buffalo, New York, United States of America, Department of Pathology and Anatomical Sciences, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Hui Meng

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Canon Stroke and Vascular Research Center, Buffalo, New York, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America, Department of Neurosurgery, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America, Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Vincent M. Tutino

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

vincentt@buffalo.edu

Affiliations Canon Stroke and Vascular Research Center, Buffalo, New York, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America, Department of Neurosurgery, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America, Department of Pathology and Anatomical Sciences, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: JNJ—Principal Investigator: NIH Grant R01-AR-060604. KVS—Consulting/teaching: Canon Medical Systems Corporation, Penumbra Inc., Medtronic, Jacobs Institute. Co-Founder: Neurovascular Diagnostics, Inc. EIL—Intratech Medical Ltd. NeXtGen Biologics. Principal investigator: Medtronic US SWIFT PRIME Trials. Honoraria–Medtronic. Consultant–Pulsar Vascular. Advisory Board-Stryker, NeXtGen Biologics, MEDX, Cognition Medical. Other financial support—Abbott Vascular for carotid training sessions. AHS—Financial Interest/Investor/Stock Options/Ownership: Amnis Therapeutics, Apama Medical,BlinkTBI, Inc., Buffalo Technology Partners, Inc., Cardinal Health, Cerebrotech Medical Systems, Inc., Claret Medical, Cognition Medical, Endostream Medical, Ltd., Imperative Care, International Medical Distribution Partners, Rebound Therapeutics Corp., Silk Road Medical, StimMed, Synchron, Three Rivers Medical, Inc., Viseon Spine, Inc. Consultant/Advisory Board: Amnis Therapeutics, Boston Scientific, Canon Medical Systems USA, Inc., Cerebrotech Medical Systems, Inc., Cerenovus, Claret Medical, Corindus, Inc., Endostream Medical, Ltd., Guidepoint 15Global Consulting, Imperative Care, Integra, Medtronic, MicroVention, Northwest University—DSMB Chair for HEAT Trial, Penumbra, Rapid Medical,Rebound Therapeutics Corp., Silk Road Medical, StimMed, Stryker, Three Rivers Medical, Inc.,VasSol, W.L. Gore & Associates. National PI/Steering Committees: Cerenovus LARGE Trial and ARISE II Trial,Medtronic SWIFTPRIME and SWIFT DIRECT Trials, MicroVention FRED Trial & CONFIDENCE Study, MUSC POSITIVE Trial,Penumbra 3D Separator Trial, COMPASS Trial, INVEST Trial. Principal investigator: Cummings Foundation grant. HM—Principal investigator:NIH Grants R01-NS-091075 and R01-NS-064592. Grant support: Canon Medical Systems. Co-founder: Neurovascular Diagnostics, Inc. VMT—Principal investigator: National Science Foundation Award No. 1746694, Brain Aneurysm Foundation grant, and Center for Advanced Technology grant. Co-founder:Neurovascular Diagnostics, Inc. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.