About the Authors

Guorong Wu

Affiliation Department of Radiology and BRIC, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, United States of America

Xuewei Peng

Affiliations Department of Radiology and BRIC, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, United States of America, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 77843, United States of America

Shihui Ying

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, School of Science, Shanghai University, Shanghai, 200444, China

Qian Wang

Affiliation Med-X Research Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China

Pew-Thian Yap

Affiliation Department of Radiology and BRIC, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, United States of America

Dan Shen

Affiliation Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, 33620, United States of America

Dinggang Shen

dgshen@med.unc.edu

Affiliations Department of Radiology and BRIC, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, United States of America, Department of Brain and Cognitive Engineering, Korea University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GW XP SY QW DS DGS. Performed the experiments: GW XP SY QW DS DGS. Analyzed the data: GW XP SY QW DS DGS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GW XP SY QW DS DGS. Wrote the paper: GW XP SY QW PY DS DGS.