About the Authors

Jessica M. Bon

bonjm@upmc.edu

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Joseph K. Leader

Affiliation Department of Radiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Joel L. Weissfeld

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Harvey O. Coxson

Affiliation James Hogg iCAPTURE Center, Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Bin Zheng

Affiliation Department of Radiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Robert A. Branch

Affiliation Department of Clinical Pharmacology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Venkateswarlu Kondragunta

Affiliation Department of Clinical Pharmacology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Janet S. Lee

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Yingze Zhang

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Augustine M. K. Choi

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Anna E. Lokshin

Affiliation University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Naftali Kaminski

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

David Gur

Affiliation Department of Radiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Frank C. Sciurba

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

Dr. HO Coxson is a Canadian Institutes of Health Research/British Columbia Lung Association New Investigator. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JLW JSL FCS. Performed the experiments: YZ AEL. Analyzed the data: JMB JKL HOC BZ RAB VK DG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JKL HOC BZ YZ AMKC AEL DG. Wrote the paper: JMB. Critical revision of the manuscript for intellectual content: JKL JLW RAB JSL AMKC NK FCS. Critical revision of the manuscript for academic_editorial content: VK.