About the Authors

Shyam Visweswaran

shv3@pitt.edu

Affiliations Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, The Intelligent Systems Program, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Antonio Ferreira

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Guilherme A. Ribeiro

Affiliation Department of Informatics, Federal University of Maranhão—UFMA, Sao Luis, MA, Brazil

Alexandre C. Oliveira

Affiliation Department of Informatics, Federal University of Maranhão—UFMA, Sao Luis, MA, Brazil

Gregory F. Cooper

Affiliations Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, The Intelligent Systems Program, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SV AF GFC. Performed the experiments: AF GAR. Analyzed the data: SV AF GAR ACO GFC. Wrote the paper: SV AF GAR ACO GFC.