About the Authors

Balaji Polepalli Ramesh

Affiliation Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, United States of America

Ricky J. Sethi

Affiliation Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, United States of America

Hong Yu

Hong.Yu@umassmed.edu

Affiliations Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, United States of America, School of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, United States of America, VA Central Western Massachusetts, Leeds, MA, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BPR RS HY. Performed the experiments: BPR. Analyzed the data: BPR. Wrote the paper: BPR RS HY.