About the Authors

Kai Yuan

Affiliation School of Life Sciences and Technology, Life Sciences Research Center, Xidian University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China

Wei Qin

Affiliation School of Life Sciences and Technology, Life Sciences Research Center, Xidian University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China

Guihong Wang

Affiliations School of Life Sciences and Technology, Life Sciences Research Center, Xidian University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China, Department of Applied Mathematics, Xidian University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China

Fang Zeng

Affiliation The 3rd Teaching Hospital, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

Liyan Zhao

Affiliation National Institute on Drug Dependence, Peking University, Beijing, China

Xuejuan Yang

Affiliation School of Life Sciences and Technology, Life Sciences Research Center, Xidian University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China

Peng Liu

Affiliation School of Life Sciences and Technology, Life Sciences Research Center, Xidian University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China

Jixin Liu

Affiliation School of Life Sciences and Technology, Life Sciences Research Center, Xidian University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China

Jinbo Sun

Affiliation School of Life Sciences and Technology, Life Sciences Research Center, Xidian University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China

Karen M. von Deneen

Affiliation School of Life Sciences and Technology, Life Sciences Research Center, Xidian University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China

Qiyong Gong

Affiliation Department of Radiology, The Center for Medical Imaging, Huaxi MR Research Center (HMRRC), West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

Yijun Liu

yijunliu@ufl.edu (YL); tian@ieee.org (JT)

Affiliation Departments of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, McKnight Brain Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Jie Tian

yijunliu@ufl.edu (YL); tian@ieee.org (JT)

Affiliations School of Life Sciences and Technology, Life Sciences Research Center, Xidian University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KY WQ YL. Performed the experiments: KY WQ FZ LZ. Analyzed the data: KY GW XY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PL JL JS. Wrote the paper: KY WQ KMD. Supervision of technical details for MRI and DTI analysis operations: WQ QG. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: QG YL JT.