About the Authors

Zhijun Yao

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhijun Yao, Yuanchao Zhang

Affiliation Center for Computational Medicine, School of Information Science and Engineering, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China

Yuanchao Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhijun Yao, Yuanchao Zhang

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

Lei Lin

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

Yuan Zhou

Affiliations LIAMA Center for Computational Medicine, National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Center for Social and Economic Behavior, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Cunlu Xu

Affiliation Center for Computational Medicine, School of Information Science and Engineering, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China

Tianzi Jiang

jiangtz@nlpr.ia.ac.cn

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

the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative

For more information on the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative please see the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: Z. Yao, L. Lin, T. Jiang. Performed the experiments: Z. Yao, Y. Zhang, L. Lin, T. Jiang. Analyzed the data: Z. Yao, Y. Zhang, Y. Zhou, C. Xu, T. Jiang. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: Z. Yao, T. Jiang. Wrote the paper: Z. Yao, Y. Zhang, T. Jiang. Designed the concepts: T. Jiang.