About the Authors

Yang Shen

Affiliations BioMolecular Engineering Research Center, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Center for Information and Systems Engineering, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Ioannis Ch. Paschalidis

Affiliations Center for Information and Systems Engineering, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Division of Systems Engineering, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Pirooz Vakili

Affiliations Center for Information and Systems Engineering, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Division of Systems Engineering, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Sandor Vajda

vajda@bu.edu

Affiliation BioMolecular Engineering Research Center, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YS ICP PV SV. Performed the experiments: YS. Analyzed the data: YS. Wrote the paper: YS ICP PV SV.