About the Authors

Li Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Li Zhang, Jing Zhang

Affiliations Department of Ultrasound, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, The Heart Center, St. Christopher's Hospital for Children/Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America

Jing Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Li Zhang, Jing Zhang

Affiliation Department of Ultrasound, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Wei Han

Affiliation Department of Ultrasound, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Jun Gao

Affiliations Department of Ultrasound, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, Department of Ultrasound, Wuhan Women and Children Medical Center, Wuhan, China

Lin He

Affiliation Department of Ultrasound, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Yali Yang

Affiliation Department of Ultrasound, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Ping Yin

Affiliation Epidemiology and Health Statistics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Mingxing Xie

shuping.ge@drexelmed.edu (SG); xiemx64@126.com (MX)

Affiliation Department of Ultrasound, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Shuping Ge

shuping.ge@drexelmed.edu (SG); xiemx64@126.com (MX)

Affiliations The Heart Center, St. Christopher's Hospital for Children/Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America, Deborah Heart and Lung Center, Browns Mills, NJ 08015, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SG MX LZ. Performed the experiments: LZ JZ WH JG LH YY. Analyzed the data: PY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LZ JZ WH LH. Wrote the paper: LZ JZ MX SG.