About the Authors

Yakang Dai

Affiliations IDEA Lab, Department of Radiology and BRIC, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Medical Imaging Department, Suzhou Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China

Yaping Wang

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

Li Wang

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

Guorong Wu

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

Feng Shi

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

Dinggang Shen

dgshen@med.unc.edu

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

Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative

Membership of the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative is discussed in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Developed the aBEAT software: YD YW LW GW FS DS. Analyzed the data: YD YW LW GW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YD YW LW GW FS DS. Wrote the paper: YD YW LW GW FS DS.