Table 5.
Morphological features used in the classification experiment.
| No. | Feature | Description | NEN1 | Lumen | EN2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Area | Area of selection in square pixels | * | * | * |
| 2 | Perimeter | The length of the outside boundary of the selection | * | * | * |
| 3 | Width | Width of the smallest rectangle enclosing the selection | * | * | * |
| 4 | Height | Height of the smallest rectangle enclosing the selection | * | * | * |
| 5 | MajorAxis | Major (primary) axis length of the best fitting ellipse | * | * | * |
| 6 | MinorAxis | Minor (secondary) axis length of the best fitting ellipse | * | * | * |
| 7 | Circularity | 4π × (Area/Perimeter2). A value of 1.0 indicates a perfect circle | * | * | * |
| 8 | Feret's diameter | The longest distance between any two points along the selection boundary | * | * | * |
| 9 | AspectRatio | MajorAxis/MinorAxis | * | * | * |
| 10 | Skewness | The third order moment about the mean | * | * | * |
| 11 | Roundness | 4 × Area/(π × MajorAxis2). The measure of the sharpness of particle's edge and corners | * | * | * |
| 12 | Solidity | Area/ConvexArea | * | * | * |
| 13 | RMSAA | Root-mean-squared atypia-amplitude | * | ||
| 14 | TSAV | Total sum of atypia volatilities for PIPs | * | ||
| 15 | AtypiaRatio | The ratio of atypia region | * | ||
| 16 | #AtypiaRegions | The number of atypia regions for identifying papillary | * | ||
| 17 | CytoplasmLength | The cytoplasm length of epithelial nucleus [32] | * | ||
| 18 | CytoplasmLengthSD | The standard deviation of CytoplasmLength | * |
NEN1: nonepithelial nuclei; EN2: epithelial nuclei.