Declarations
Ethics approval and consent to participate – This study was conducted with the approval of the approval of the UT Health IRB (ID: IRB00000308)
Consent for publication – Not applicable
Competing interests – The authors declare that they have no competing interests or conflicts of interest.
Funding – There was no funding involved in this work.
Authors’ contributions – MK: writing – original draft, methodology, formal analysis, resources, writing – review and editing, image processing; SN: conceptualization, methodology, writing – review and editing; RK: conceptualization, methodology, validation, visualization, project administration, writing – review and editing.
Acknowledgements: None
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