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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Sep 9.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer. 2009 Jan 15;115(2):303–310. doi: 10.1002/cncr.24016

Table 2.

Features selected for systems pathology clinical failure models, in order of weighted importance. AR: androgen receptor, AMACR: α-methyl CoA racemase

Systems Pathology Model #1
  • 1) Biopsy Gleason sum

  • 2) Texture variation within cytoplasm

  • 3) Lymph node involvement

  • 4) Relative area of epithelial nuclei

  • 5) Mean brightness of cytoplasm

  • 6) Pre-op PSA

  • 7) Prostatectomy Gleason sum

  • 8) Variation of color between cytoplasm

  • 9) Mean brightness of AR in AR+/AMACR+ epithelial nuclei

  • 10) Surgical margins

  • 11) Variation of color between cytoplasm


Systems Pathology Model #2

  • 1) Mean brightness of cytoplasm

  • 2) Biopsy Gleason sum

  • 3) Lymph node involvement

  • 4) Texture variation in stroma

  • 5) Color variation between epithelial nuclei

  • 6) Prostatectomy Gleason sum

  • 7) Mean brightness of AR in AR+/AMACR+ epithelial nuclei