About the Authors

Xiaobo Guo

Affiliations Department of Statistical Science, School of Mathematics & Computational Science, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China, Southern China Research Center of Statistical Science, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China, State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China

Ye Zhang

Affiliations Department of Statistical Science, School of Mathematics & Computational Science, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China, Southern China Research Center of Statistical Science, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China

Wenhao Hu

Affiliation Department of Statistical Science, School of Mathematics & Computational Science, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China

Haizhu Tan

Affiliations Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China, Department of Physics and Informatics, Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, China

Xueqin Wang

wangxq88@mail.sysu.edu.cn

Affiliations Department of Statistical Science, School of Mathematics & Computational Science, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China, Southern China Research Center of Statistical Science, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China, State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XQW XBG. Performed the experiments: XBG YZ WHH. Analyzed the data: XBG YZ WHH HZT. Wrote the paper: XBG XQW YZ.