About the Authors

Shenghan Ren

Affiliation School of Life Sciences and Technology, Xidian University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

Xueli Chen

Affiliation School of Life Sciences and Technology, Xidian University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

Hailong Wang

Affiliation School of Life Sciences and Technology, Xidian University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

Xiaochao Qu

Affiliation School of Life Sciences and Technology, Xidian University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

Ge Wang

wangg6@rpi.edu (GW); jimleung@mail.xidian.edu.cn (JL); tian@ieee.org (JT)

Affiliation Biomedical Imaging Center, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, United States of America

Jimin Liang

wangg6@rpi.edu (GW); jimleung@mail.xidian.edu.cn (JL); tian@ieee.org (JT)

Affiliation School of Life Sciences and Technology, Xidian University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

Jie Tian

wangg6@rpi.edu (GW); jimleung@mail.xidian.edu.cn (JL); tian@ieee.org (JT)

Affiliations School of Life Sciences and Technology, Xidian University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SHR XLC. Performed the experiments: SHR XLC HLW. Analyzed the data: SHR XLC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SHR XLC HLW GW JT JML. Wrote the paper: SHR XLC XCQ GW JT JML.