About the Authors

Edward Pace

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Wayne State University School of Medicine, 4201 Saint Antoine, Detroit, Michigan 48201, United States of America

Hao Luo

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Wayne State University School of Medicine, 4201 Saint Antoine, Detroit, Michigan 48201, United States of America

Michael Bobian

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Wayne State University School of Medicine, 4201 Saint Antoine, Detroit, Michigan 48201, United States of America

Ajay Panekkad

Affiliation Department of Electrical Engineering, Wayne State College of Engineering, 5050 Anthony Wayne Drive, Detroit, Michigan 48202, United States of America

Xueguo Zhang

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Wayne State University School of Medicine, 4201 Saint Antoine, Detroit, Michigan 48201, United States of America

Huiming Zhang

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Windsor, 401 Sunset Avenue, Windsor, Ontario, Canada

Jinsheng Zhang

jinzhang@med.wayne.edu

Affiliations Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Wayne State University School of Medicine, 4201 Saint Antoine, Detroit, Michigan 48201, United States of America, Department of Communication Sciences & Disorders, Wayne State University College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, 60 Farnsworth St., Detroit, Michigan 48202, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: EP HL AP XZ HZ JZ. Data curation: EP HL MB JZ. Formal analysis: EP HL MB AP JZ. Funding acquisition: JZ. Investigation: EP HL MB. Methodology: EP HL MB JZ. Project administration: JZ. Resources: JZ. Software: AP. Supervision: JZ. Validation: EP HL MB JZ. Visualization: EP XZ JZ. Writing – original draft: EP HZ JZ. Writing – review & editing: EP HZ JZ.