About the Authors

Ian W. Rodger

rodgeri@mcmaster.ca

Affiliation Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Dorothy Dilar

Affiliation Diagnostic Imaging, St Joseph's Healthcare, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Janet Dwyer

Affiliation Diagnostic Imaging, St Joseph's Healthcare, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

John Bienenstock

Affiliations Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Andu Coret

Affiliation Diagnostic Imaging, St Joseph's Healthcare, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Judith Coret-Simon

Affiliation Diagnostic Imaging, St Joseph's Healthcare, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Gary Foster

Affiliation Biostatistics, St Joseph's Healthcare, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Arlene Franchetto

Affiliation Diagnostic Imaging, Hamilton Health Sciences, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Slobodan Franic

Affiliation Diagnostic Imaging, St Joseph's Healthcare, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Charles H. Goldsmith

Affiliation Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

David Koff

Affiliation Department of Radiology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Norman B. Konyer

Affiliation Imaging Research Centre, St Joseph's Healthcare, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Mitchell Levine

Affiliations Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Ellen McDonald

Affiliation Clinical Research, Hamilton Health Sciences, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Michael D. Noseworthy

Affiliations Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, Imaging Research Centre, St Joseph's Healthcare, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

John Paulseth

Affiliation Department of Neurology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Luciana Ribeiro

Affiliation Diagnostic Imaging, Hamilton Health Sciences, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Mary Jane Sayles

Affiliation Research Administration, St Joseph's Healthcare, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Lehana Thabane

Affiliation Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: IR DD JD JB AC JC-S GF AF SF CG DK NK ML MN JP LR MJS LT. Performed the experiments: DD JD NK MN JP EM MJS. Analyzed the data: IR AC JC-S GF AF SF CG DK NK ML MN JP LR MJS LT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DD JD GF NK MN. Wrote the paper: IR DD JD JB AC JC-S GF AF SF CG DK NK ML EM MN JP LR MJS LT.