About the Authors

Ao Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Ao Li, Yuanning Liu

aoli@ustc.edu.cn

Affiliations Centers for Biomedical Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, School of Information Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China

Yuanning Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Ao Li, Yuanning Liu

Affiliation School of Information Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China

Qihong Zhao

Affiliation School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China

Huanqing Feng

Affiliation School of Information Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China

Lyndsay Harris

Affiliation Seidman Cancer Center, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, United States of America

Minghui Wang

Affiliations Centers for Biomedical Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, School of Information Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AL MW HF. Performed the experiments: AL YL. Analyzed the data: AL YL QZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AL YL LH. Wrote the paper: AL YL MW.