About the Authors

Arunan Skandarajah

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA, United States of America

Sumsum P. Sunny

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Head and Neck Oncology, Mazumdar Shaw Medical Centre, NH Health city, Bangalore, India, Integrated Head and Neck Oncology Program (DSRG-5), Mazumdar Shaw Center for Translational Research, Mazumdar Shaw Medical Foundation, NH Health City, Bangalore, India

Praveen Gurpur

Roles Formal analysis, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Siemens Healthcare Pvt Ltd, Bangalore, India

Clay D. Reber

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA, United States of America

Michael V. D’Ambrosio

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA, United States of America

Nisheena Raghavan

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Mazumdar Shaw Medical Centre, NH Health City, Bangalore, India

Bonney Lee James

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Integrated Head and Neck Oncology Program (DSRG-5), Mazumdar Shaw Center for Translational Research, Mazumdar Shaw Medical Foundation, NH Health City, Bangalore, India

Ravindra D. Ramanjinappa

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Integrated Head and Neck Oncology Program (DSRG-5), Mazumdar Shaw Center for Translational Research, Mazumdar Shaw Medical Foundation, NH Health City, Bangalore, India

Amritha Suresh

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Head and Neck Oncology, Mazumdar Shaw Medical Centre, NH Health city, Bangalore, India, Integrated Head and Neck Oncology Program (DSRG-5), Mazumdar Shaw Center for Translational Research, Mazumdar Shaw Medical Foundation, NH Health City, Bangalore, India

Uma Kandasarma

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology, KLE Society’s Institute of Dental Sciences, Bangalore, India

Praveen Birur

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Department of oral medicine and radiology, KLE Society’s Institute of Dental Sciences, Bangalore, India

Vinay V. Kumar

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Head and Neck Oncology, Mazumdar Shaw Medical Centre, NH Health city, Bangalore, India

Honorius-Cezar Galmeanu

Roles Software

Affiliation Siemens S.R.L, Brasov, Romania

Alexandru Mihail Itu

Roles Software, Supervision

Affiliation Siemens S.R.L, Brasov, Romania

Mihai Modiga-Arsu

Roles Software

Affiliation Siemens S.R.L, Brasov, Romania

Saskia Rausch

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Siemens Healthcare GmbH, Erlangen, Germany

Maria Sramek

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Siemens Healthcare GmbH, Erlangen, Germany

Manohar Kollegal

Roles Project administration

Affiliation Siemens Healthcare Pvt Ltd, Bangalore, India

Gianluca Paladini

Roles Project administration, Software

Affiliation Siemens Medical Solutions USA Inc., Princeton, NJ, United States of America

Moni Kuriakose

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Head and Neck Oncology, Mazumdar Shaw Medical Centre, NH Health city, Bangalore, India, Integrated Head and Neck Oncology Program (DSRG-5), Mazumdar Shaw Center for Translational Research, Mazumdar Shaw Medical Foundation, NH Health City, Bangalore, India

Lance Ladic

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

lance.ladic@siemens.com

Affiliation Siemens Medical Solutions USA Inc., Princeton, NJ, United States of America

Felix Koch

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery–Plastic Surgery, University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany

Daniel Fletcher

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA, United States of America

Competing Interests

Siemens provided partial funding and actively participated in this study. Some of the Siemens employees are also owners of Siemens shares. Dr. Fletcher is co-founder of CellScope Inc., a company commercializing a cellphone-based microscope. CellScope Inc. had no involvement with the study described in the manuscript. These disclosures do not alter the authors' adherence to all of the PLOS One policies on sharing data and materials.