Computers in Biology and Medicine An International Journal

Editor-in-Chief: Edward J. Ciaccio Columbia University, New York, USA

Senior Editor U. Rajendra Acharya, Ngee Ann Polytechnic, University of Glasgow, Singapore Associate Editors Huanyu Cheng, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA Arkadiusz Gertych, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, USA Rodrigo C. Guido, São Paulo State University, São José do Rio Preto - SP, Brazil Suparerk Janjarasjitt, Ubon Ratchathani University, Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand Tryphon Lambrou, University of Lincoln, Lincoln, UK Abhilash Ponnath, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, USA Fengfeng Zhou, University, Changchun,

Editorial Board

Alex A.T. Bui Feng Liu Turki Turki University of California Los Angeles, , Wuhan, China King Abdulaziz University, Los Angeles, USA Qingqing Mao Jeddah, Saudi Arabia Candido Cabo Primer AI, San Francisco, United States Ali Vahdati New York City College of Technology, Sara R.F. Marceglia Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, USA Brooklyn, USA Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy Suhas Vasaikar Kup Sze Choi George K. Matsopoulos Baylor College of Medicine, UDA Houston, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, National Technical University of Athens, USA Hong Kong Athens, Greece Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic Timothy Ellmore Kristen M. Meiburger Columbia University, New York, USA City College of New York, New York, USA Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy Shuyuan Wang Akram Farhadi Fatima A. Merchant Google/Verily Life Sciences Mountain View, University of Georgia, Athens, USA University of Houston, Houston, USA USA Dimitrios Fotiadis Henning Müller Xiao-Jun Wu University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece HES-SO Valais-Wallis, Sierre, Switzerland , Wuxi, China Dhanjoo Ghista Eddie Y. K. Ng Yifei Wu University 2020 Foundation, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, University of Georgia, Athens USA Northborough, USA Singapore Lisheng Xu Evgin Goceri Northeastern University, Akdeniz University, Antalya, Turkey Binh Nguyen Victoria University of Wellington, Shen Yang City, China Dewen Hu Wellington, Australia of Defense Technology, Zhan (Harold) Ye College of Mechatronics and Automation, Jincheng Pang Pfizer, USA , China Pfizer Worldwide Research and Development, Nianyin Zeng Cambridge, USA Samra Irshad University, Fuzhou, China Swinburne University of Technology, João Paulo Papa Heye Zhang Victoria, Australia São Paulo State University, Sao Paulo, Sun Yat-Sen University, Yalcin Isler Brazil Guangming, China Izmir Katip Celebi University, Izmir, Turkey Yun Peng Yudong Zhang Dhawal Jain NuVasive, Inc., San Diego, USA University of Leicester Department of Harvard University, Boston, USA Usman Qamar Informatics, Leicester, United Kingdom Dakai Jin National University of Sciences and Technology Shijia J Zhao National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA (NUST), Rawalpindi, Pakistan University of Nebraska Medical Center, Zhanpeng Jin Rick P.C. Rodgers Omaha, USA SUNY University at Buffalo, Buffalo, USA University of California, San Francisco, Zhiguo Zhou Haik Kalantarian San Francisco, USA University of Texas Southwestern Medical Stanford University, Stanford, USA Patrick Segers Center, Dallas, USA Atif Khan Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium Feng Zhu University of Chicago, Chicago, USA Sinosh Skariyachan University, Hangzhou, Arvind Kumar Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering, China Case Western Reserve University School of Bangalore, India Xiahai Zhuang Medicine, Cleveland, USA Amirhossein Tavanaei Duan Li University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Quan Zou University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA Lafayette, USA University of Electronic Science and Panagiotis Liatsis Jafar Toussy Technology of China School of Electronic Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Semnan University of Medical Sciences, Science and Engineering, Chengdu, Abu Dhabi, UAE Semnan, Iran China

Founding Editor: Robert S. Ledley Past Editor: R.P. Channing Rodgers