About the Authors

Wei Xu

Contributed equally to this work with: Wei Xu, Huisong Wang

Affiliation The Department of Electronics and Information Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, People's Republic of China

Huisong Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Wei Xu, Huisong Wang

Affiliation The Department of Electronics and Information Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, People's Republic of China

Wenqing Cheng

Affiliation The Department of Electronics and Information Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, People's Republic of China

Dong Fu

Affiliations Northwestern University Biomedical Informatics Center (NUBIC), NUCATS, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, The Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Tian Xia

tianxia@northwestern.edu (TX); wakibbe@northwestern.edu (WAK); LINMD.SIMON@mcrf.mfldclin.edu (SML)

Affiliations The Department of Electronics and Information Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, People's Republic of China, Northwestern University Biomedical Informatics Center (NUBIC), NUCATS, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, The Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Warren A. Kibbe

tianxia@northwestern.edu (TX); wakibbe@northwestern.edu (WAK); LINMD.SIMON@mcrf.mfldclin.edu (SML)

Affiliations Northwestern University Biomedical Informatics Center (NUBIC), NUCATS, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, The Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Simon M. Lin

tianxia@northwestern.edu (TX); wakibbe@northwestern.edu (WAK); LINMD.SIMON@mcrf.mfldclin.edu (SML)

Affiliations Northwestern University Biomedical Informatics Center (NUBIC), NUCATS, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, The Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Biomedical Informatics Research Center, Marshfield Center, Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TX SML WAK. Performed the experiments: HSW WX DF WC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HSW. Wrote the paper: TX SML WAK.