About the Authors

Sandeep Verma

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

docsandeepverma@gmail.com

‡ These authors contributed equally and share first authorship on this work.

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, Sinai Hospital, Baltimore MD, United States of America

Sudhir K. Dutta

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors contributed equally and share first authorship on this work.

Affiliations Division of Gastroenterology, Sinai Hospital, Baltimore MD, United States of America, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Elad Firnberg

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

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, Sinai Hospital, Baltimore MD, United States of America

Laila Phillips

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, Sinai Hospital, Baltimore MD, United States of America

Rakesh Vinayek

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, Sinai Hospital, Baltimore MD, United States of America

Padmanabhan P. Nair

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, United States of America, Noninvasive Technologies, Elkridge, MD, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal’s policy and have the following competing interests: PPN owns NonInvasive Technologies LLC. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products associated with this research to declare.