About the Authors

Jing-Sheng Li

Affiliations Bioengineering Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, College of Health and Rehabilitation Science: Sargent College, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Tsung-Yuan Tsai

Affiliation Bioengineering Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

David T. Felson

Affiliations Clinical Epidemiology Research and Training Unit, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, NIHR Manchester Musculoskeletal Biomedical Research Unit, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, United Kingdom

Guoan Li

Affiliation Bioengineering Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Cara L. Lewis

lewisc@bu.edu

Affiliations College of Health and Rehabilitation Science: Sargent College, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Clinical Epidemiology Research and Training Unit, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: JL TT GL DTF. Data curation: JL TT DTF GL CLL. Formal analysis: JL TT DTF GL CLL. Funding acquisition: DTF. Investigation: JL TT GL. Methodology: JL TT GL. Project administration: DTF GL CLL. Resources: JL TT DTF GL. Software: JL TT. Supervision: DTF GL CLL. Validation: JL TT GL. Visualization: JL TT GL. Writing – original draft: JL. Writing – review & editing: JL TT DTF GL CLL.