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. 2013 Jul 25;2013:175271. doi: 10.1155/2013/175271

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.