About the Authors

Kuo-Lun Huang

Affiliations Stroke Center and Department of Neurology, Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Yeu-Jhy Chang

Affiliations Stroke Center and Department of Neurology, Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Chien-Hung Chang

Affiliations Stroke Center and Department of Neurology, Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Department of Electrical Engineering, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Ting-Yu Chang

Affiliations Stroke Center and Department of Neurology, Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Chi-Hung Liu

Affiliations Stroke Center and Department of Neurology, Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

I-Chang Hsieh

Affiliations College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Cardiology, Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Ho-Fai Wong

Affiliations College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Department of Medical Imaging and Intervention, Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Yau-Yau Wai

Affiliations College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Department of Medical Imaging and Intervention, Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Yu-Wei Chen

Affiliations Department of Neurology, Landseed Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Department of Neurology, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei City, Taiwan, Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Central University, Zhongli City, Taiwan

Bak-Sau Yip

Affiliation Department of Neurology, National Taiwan University Hospital Hsinchu Branch, Hsinchu, Taiwan

Tsong-Hai Lee

thlee@adm.cgmh.org.tw

Affiliations Stroke Center and Department of Neurology, Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KLH YJC CHC TYC CHL ICH YWC BSY THL. Performed the experiments: KLH YJC CHC TYC CHL ICH HFW THL. Analyzed the data: KLH YJC CHC TYC CHL ICH HFW THL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KLH CHC TYC CHL ICH HFW YYW YWC BSY THL. Wrote the paper: KLH YJC TYC ICH THL.