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.