About the Authors

Yaping Wang

Affiliations School of Automation, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, China, Department of Radiology and BRIC, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Jingxin Nie

Affiliation Department of Radiology and BRIC, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Pew-Thian Yap

Affiliation Department of Radiology and BRIC, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Gang Li

Affiliation Department of Radiology and BRIC, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Feng Shi

Affiliation Department of Radiology and BRIC, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Xiujuan Geng

Affiliation Neuroimaging Research Branch, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Lei Guo

Affiliation School of Automation, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, China

Dinggang Shen

dgshen@med.unc.edu

Affiliations Department of Radiology and BRIC, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Brain and Cognitive Engineering, Korea University, Seoul, Korea

for the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YW JN DS P-TY GL. Performed the experiments: YW. Analyzed the data: YW JN P-TY GL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YW P-TY FS XG. Wrote the paper: YW P-TY DS JN GL LG FS XG.