Before revision:  Here we propose to overcome these two issues by employing a novel similarity function, DTWMIC , combining a measure taking care of functional interactions of signals (MIC) and a measure identifying horizontal displacements (DTW).
After revision:  Here we propose to overcome these two issues by employing a novel similarity function, Dynamic Time Warping Maximal Information Coefficient (DTW-MIC) , combining a measure taking care of functional interactions of signals (MIC) and a measure identifying horizontal displacements (DTW).