About the Authors

Yue Cui

Contributed equally to this work with: Yue Cui, Bing Liu

Affiliation School of Design, Communication and Information Technology, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia

Bing Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Yue Cui, Bing Liu

Affiliation LIAMA Center for Computational Medicine, National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Suhuai Luo

Affiliation School of Design, Communication and Information Technology, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia

Xiantong Zhen

Affiliation LIAMA Center for Computational Medicine, National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Ming Fan

Affiliation LIAMA Center for Computational Medicine, National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Tao Liu

Affiliations School of Design, Communication and Information Technology, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, Neuropsychiatric Institute, Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Brain and Ageing Research Program, School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Wanlin Zhu

Affiliations Neuropsychiatric Institute, Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Brain and Ageing Research Program, School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Mira Park

Affiliation School of Design, Communication and Information Technology, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia

Tianzi Jiang

jesse.jin@newcastle.edu.au (JSJ); jiangtz@nlpr.ia.ac.cn (TJ)

Affiliations LIAMA Center for Computational Medicine, National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China, Key Laboratory for NeuroInformation of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, People's Republic of China

Jesse S. Jin

jesse.jin@newcastle.edu.au (JSJ); jiangtz@nlpr.ia.ac.cn (TJ)

Affiliation School of Design, Communication and Information Technology, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia

the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative

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Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YC BL TJ JSJ. Performed the experiments: YC BL SL XZ MF TL WZ MP. Analyzed the data: YC BL SL XZ MF TL WZ MP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YC BL SL XZ MF TL WZ MP. Wrote the paper: YC BL TJ JSJ.