About the Authors

Jinhua Xu

Affiliations Brain and Behavior Discovery Institute, Georgia Health Sciences University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America, Department of Computer Science and Technology, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China

Zhiyong Yang

zhyang@mcg.edu (ZY); jtsien@mcg.edu (JZT)

Affiliations Brain and Behavior Discovery Institute, Georgia Health Sciences University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America, Department of Ophthalmology, Georgia Health Sciences University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America

Joe Z. Tsien

zhyang@mcg.edu (ZY); jtsien@mcg.edu (JZT)

Affiliations Brain and Behavior Discovery Institute, Georgia Health Sciences University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America, Department of Neurology, Georgia Health Sciences University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZY JZT. Performed the experiments: JX ZY. Analyzed the data: JX ZY JZT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JX ZY JZT. Wrote the paper: JX ZY JZT.