About the Authors

Michael Helmberger

Contributed equally to this work with: Michael Helmberger, Michael Pienn

Affiliations Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Lung Vascular Research, Graz, Austria, Institute for Computer Graphics and Vision, Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria

Michael Pienn

Contributed equally to this work with: Michael Helmberger, Michael Pienn

Affiliation Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Lung Vascular Research, Graz, Austria

Martin Urschler

Affiliations Institute for Computer Graphics and Vision, Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Clinical Forensic Imaging, Graz, Austria

Peter Kullnig

Affiliation DiagnostikZentrum Graz, Graz, Austria

Rudolf Stollberger

Affiliation Institute for Medical Engineering, Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria

Gabor Kovacs

Affiliations Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Lung Vascular Research, Graz, Austria, Division of Pulmonology, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

Andrea Olschewski

Affiliations Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Lung Vascular Research, Graz, Austria, Experimental Anesthesiology, Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

Horst Olschewski

Affiliations Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Lung Vascular Research, Graz, Austria, Division of Pulmonology, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

Zoltán Bálint

zoltan.balint@lvr.lbg.ac.at

Affiliation Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Lung Vascular Research, Graz, Austria

Competing Interests

G. Kovacs reports personal fees from Glaxo Smithkline, personal fees from Actelion, personal fees from Pfizer, personal fees from Boehringer Ingelheim, personal fees from Astra Zeneca, personal fees from Nycomed-Takeda, personal fees from Bayer, personal fees from Chiesi, outside the submitted work. H. Olschewski reports personal fees from Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Lung Vascular Research, during the conduct of the study; grants and personal fees from Actelion, grants and personal fees from Bayer, personal fees from Chiesi, personal fees from Gilead, personal fees from Lilly, personal fees from Boehringer, personal fees from Almirall, personal fees from Pfizer, grants and personal fees from GSK, personal fees from Astra Zeneca, personal fees from Novartis, personal fees from Takeda, outside the submitted work. PK is radiologist in the private practice of radiologists, DiagnostikZentrum Graz. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MH MP MU ZB. Performed the experiments: MH MP MU PK GK ZB. Analyzed the data: MH MP RS AO HO ZB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MU PK AO HO. Wrote the paper: MH MP ZB. Critically revised the manuscript: MU PK RS GK AO HO. Approved the final version to be published: MH MP MU PK RS GK AO HO ZB.