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. 2023 Mar 21;15(6):1888. doi: 10.3390/cancers15061888

Table 2.

Summary of HDMI biomarker distributions for benign and malignant thyroid nodules and their corresponding p-values.

HDMI Biomarkers Benign (n = 57) Malignant (n = 35) p-Value
NB 29.00 ± 8.49 42.50 ± 41.72 <0.00001
NV 49.00 ± 1.41 65.50 ± 64.35 0.00004
VD 0.17 ± 0.08 0.24 ± 0.07 0.00061
Dmax (µm) 624.59 ± 48.48 624.04 ± 9.65 0.98
VDR 0.96 ± 0.23 1.09 ± 0.49 0.28
τmax 1.36 ± 0.004 1.42 ± 0.14 0.44
τmean 1.05 ± 0.01 1.06 ± 0.01 0.70
mvFD 1.43 ± 0.01 1.46 ± 0.14 0.00005
BAmean 108.31 ± 96.00 94.41 ± 6.55 0.0029
BAmax 169.12 ± 2.66 149.11 ± 29.37 0.088
MDmean 0.36 ± 0.02 0.38 ± 0.03 0.28
MDmax 0.81 ± 0.12 0.84 ± 0.13 0.0055

Quantitative variables were summarized as mean ± standard deviation (SD), while nominal variables were summarized as counts and percentages.