About the Authors

Xinyu Zhao

Affiliations Obesity and Body Composition Research Center, Chronic Disease Research Institute, School of Public Health, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, Obesity Research Center, St. Luke’s–Roosevelt Hospital Center, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York, United States of America

ZiMian Wang

zsk@zju.edu.cn (SKZ); zw28@columbia.edu (ZMW)

Affiliation Obesity Research Center, St. Luke’s–Roosevelt Hospital Center, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York, United States of America

Junyi Zhang

Affiliation Department of Statistics, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Jianming Hua

Affiliation Department of Radiology, Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

Wei He

Affiliation Obesity and Body Composition Research Center, Chronic Disease Research Institute, School of Public Health, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

Shankuan Zhu

zsk@zju.edu.cn (SKZ); zw28@columbia.edu (ZMW)

Affiliations Obesity and Body Composition Research Center, Chronic Disease Research Institute, School of Public Health, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, Department of Nutrition and Food Hygiene, School of Public Health, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

MRI image segementation: XYZ. Conceived and designed the experiments: XYZ ZMW WH SKZ. Performed the experiments: XYZ JMH WH. Analyzed the data: XYZ ZMW JYZ. Wrote the paper: XYZ ZMW JYZ WH SKZ.