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. 2024 Jul 26;14(8):5358–5372. doi: 10.21037/qims-23-1614

Table 2. Detailed definitions of first-order features.

Feature Explanation
Mean The average gray-level intensity within the ROI
Minimum Minimum = min(X)
Maximum The maximum gray-level intensity within the ROI
10th The 10th percentile of X
Median The median gray-level intensity within the ROI
90th The 90th percentile of X
Range The range of gray values in the ROI
Interquartile range Interquartile range = P75−P25
Energy A measure of the magnitude of voxel values in an image
Total energy The value of energy feature scaled by the volume of the voxel in cubic mm
Entropy The uncertainty/randomness in the image values
Kurtosis A measure of the “peakedness” of the distribution of values in the image ROI
Skewness The asymmetry of the distribution of values about the mean value
Uniformity A measure of the sum of the squares of each intensity value
Variance The mean of the squared distances of each intensity value from the mean value
Mean absolute deviation The mean distance of all intensity values from the mean value of the image array
Robust mean absolute deviation The mean distance of all intensity values from the mean value calculated on the subset of image array with gray levels in between or equal to the 10th and 90th percentile
Root mean squared The square root of the mean of all the squared intensity values

The information above has been taken from the official Pyradiomics website (https://pyradiomics.readthedocs.io/en/latest/features.html). ROI, region of interest.