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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Dec 10.
Published in final edited form as: Acad Radiol. 2008 Dec;15(12):1513–1525. doi: 10.1016/j.acra.2008.06.005
Volume
Vol=x,y,zFROI(x,y,z)p2t
(1)
Surface
Surf=x,y,zSROI(x,y,z)pt
(2)
Compactness
Comp=Surf2Vol
(3)
NRL mean
μNRL=1Nj=1Nrj
(4)
Sphericity
Spher=μNRLσNRL
(5)
NRL entropy
ENRL=j=1Hprobjlog2(probj)
(6)
Where
Probj=rjrj
NRL ratio
RNRL=1NμNRLj=1N(rjμNRL):rj>μNRL
(7)
Roughness
Rough=1Nj=1N(rjμNRL)441Nj=1N(rjμNRL)2μNRL
(8)

Where FROI is the pixel number in the ROI,

SROI is the pixel number along the boundary of the ROI,

σNRL is the standard deviation of NRL,