About the Authors

Daoqiang Zhang

Affiliations Department of Radiology and Biomedical Research Imaging Center (BRIC), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China

Dinggang Shen

dgshen@med.unc.edu

Affiliation Department of Radiology and Biomedical Research Imaging Center (BRIC), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative

Affiliation 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: DZ DS. Performed the experiments: DZ. Analyzed the data: DZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DZ. Wrote the paper: DZ DS.