About the Authors

Kai Yuan

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

Ping Cheng

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

Tao Dong

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

Yanzhi Bi

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

Lihong Xing

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

Dahua Yu

Affiliations Life Sciences Research Center, School of Life Sciences and Technology, Xidian University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China, Information Processing Laboratory, School of Information Engineering, Inner Mongolia University of Science and Technology, Baotou, Inner Mongolia, China

Limei Zhao

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

Minghao Dong

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

Karen M. von Deneen

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

Yijun Liu

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

Wei Qin

wqin@xidian.edu.cn (WQ); tian@ieee.org (JT)

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

Jie Tian

wqin@xidian.edu.cn (WQ); tian@ieee.org (JT)

Affiliations Life Sciences Research Center, School of Life Sciences and Technology, 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

Supervision of technical details for MRI data analysis operations: WQ. Contribution to the writing of the manuscript: YL JT. Conceived and designed the experiments: KY WQ JT. Performed the experiments: KY WQ LZ. Analyzed the data: KY DY LZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PT TD YB LX. Wrote the paper: KY WQ MD KMD.