About the Authors

Lennart Hilbert

Affiliations Dept. Physiology, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada, Centre for Applied Mathematics in Bioscience and Medicine, Montréal, Québec, Canada, Meakins-Christie Laboratories, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada

Genevieve Bates

Affiliation Meakins-Christie Laboratories, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada

Horia N. Roman

Affiliations Meakins-Christie Laboratories, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada, Dept. Biomedical Engineering, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada

Jenna L. Blumenthal

Affiliation Meakins-Christie Laboratories, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada

Nedjma B. Zitouni

Affiliation Meakins-Christie Laboratories, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada

Apolinary Sobieszek

Affiliation Institute for Biomedical Aging Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Innsbruck, Austria

Michael C. Mackey

Affiliations Dept. Physiology, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada, Centre for Applied Mathematics in Bioscience and Medicine, Montréal, Québec, Canada, Dept. Physics and Dept. Mathematics, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada

Anne-Marie Lauzon

anne.lauzon@mcgill.ca

Affiliations Meakins-Christie Laboratories, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada, Dept. Biomedical Engineering, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada, Dept. Medicine, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LH JLB AML. Performed the experiments: LH NBZ. Analyzed the data: LH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AS. Wrote the paper: LH. Executed preliminary experiments that preceded final data collection: GB JLB. Designed the video analysis software: LH. Instructed and tested the video analysis software development: GB HNR. Developed the mathematical model: LH MCM. Development, programming, and analysis of the numerical simulations: LH.