About the Authors

Luping Zhou

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

Yaping Wang

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

Yang Li

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

Pew-Thian Yap

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

and the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI)

Affiliation Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative, Department of Neurology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LZ DS YL P-TY. Performed the experiments: LZ. Analyzed the data: LZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YW. Wrote the paper: LZ YL P-TY DS.