About the Authors

Kai Yuan

Contributed equally to this work with: Kai Yuan, Chenwang Jin

kyuan@xidian.edu.cn

Affiliation School of Life Science and Technology, Xidian University, Xi’an, Peoples R China

Chenwang Jin

Contributed equally to this work with: Kai Yuan, Chenwang Jin

Affiliation Department of Medical Imaging, the First Affiliated Hospital of Medical College, Xi’an, Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China

Ping Cheng

Affiliation School of Life Science and Technology, Xidian University, Xi’an, Peoples R China

Xuejuan Yang

Affiliation School of Life Science and Technology, Xidian University, Xi’an, Peoples R China

Tao Dong

Affiliation School of Life Science and Technology, Xidian University, Xi’an, Peoples R China

Yanzhi Bi

Affiliation School of Life Science and Technology, Xidian University, Xi’an, Peoples R China

Lihong Xing

Affiliation School of Life Science and Technology, Xidian University, Xi’an, Peoples R China

Karen M. von Deneen

Affiliation School of Life Science and Technology, Xidian University, Xi’an, Peoples R China

Dahua Yu

Affiliations School of Life Science and Technology, Xidian University, Xi’an, Peoples R China, Information Processing Laboratory, School of Information Engineering, Inner Mongolia University of Science and Technology, Baotou, Inner Mongolia, China

Junyu Liu

Affiliation Baotou Heping Middle School, Baotou, Inner Mongolia, China

Jun Liang

Affiliation Baotou Heping Middle School, Baotou, Inner Mongolia, China

Tingting Cheng

Affiliation Baotou Heping Middle School, Baotou, Inner Mongolia, China

Wei Qin

Affiliation School of Life Science and Technology, Xidian University, Xi’an, Peoples R China

Jie Tian

Affiliations School of Life Science and Technology, Xidian University, Xi’an, Peoples R 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: KY CJ XY DY WQ. Performed the experiments: PC TD J. Liu J. Liang TC. Analyzed the data: YB LX PC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CJ DY. Wrote the paper: XY CJ. Proofread: KMVD. Reviewed: WQ JT.