About the Authors

Yan Tang

wawe01cn@yahoo.com.cn (WW)

Affiliations Department of Radiology, The Third Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China, Biomedical Engineering Laboratory, School of Geosciences and Info-Physics, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China

Weixiong Jiang

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Affiliations Department of Radiology, The Third Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China, Biomedical Engineering Laboratory, School of Geosciences and Info-Physics, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China, Department of Information science and Engineering, Hunan First Normal University, Changsha, Hunan, China

Jian Liao

Affiliation Department of Radiology, The Third Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China

Wei Wang

wawe01cn@yahoo.com.cn (WW)

Affiliations Department of Radiology, The Third Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China, Key Laboratory of Medical Information Research (Central South University), College of Hunan Province, Changsha, Hunan, China

Aijing Luo

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Medical Information Research (Central South University), College of Hunan Province, Changsha, Hunan, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WW. Performed the experiments: WJ JL. Analyzed the data: WJ YT AL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WJ YT. Wrote the paper: WJ YT WW.