About the Authors

Sandra Ortega-Martorell

Affiliation Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Héctor Ruiz

Affiliation Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Alfredo Vellido

Affiliation Department of Computer Languages and Systems, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - BarcelonaTech, Barcelona, Spain

Iván Olier

Affiliation Institute of Population Health, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Enrique Romero

Affiliation Department of Computer Languages and Systems, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - BarcelonaTech, Barcelona, Spain

Margarida Julià-Sapé

Affiliations Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red en Bioingeniería, Biomateriales y Nanomedicina (CIBER-BBN), Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain, Departament de Bioquímica i Biología Molecular, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain, Institut de Biotecnologia i de Biomedicina, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain

José D. Martín

Affiliation Departamento de Ingeniería Electrónica, Universidad de Valencia, Burjassot, Spain

Ian H. Jarman

Affiliation Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Carles Arús

Affiliations Departament de Bioquímica i Biología Molecular, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red en Bioingeniería, Biomateriales y Nanomedicina (CIBER-BBN), Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain, Institut de Biotecnologia i de Biomedicina, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain

Paulo J. G. Lisboa

P.J.Lisboa@ljmu.ac.uk

Affiliation Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SOM HR AV IO ER JM IJ PL. Performed the experiments: SOM IO PL. Analyzed the data: SOM AV IO MJS CA PL. Wrote the paper: SOM AV IO MJS CA PL.