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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jan 15.
Published in final edited form as: Proc IEEE Int Symp Biomed Imaging. 2012 Dec 31;2012:1459–1462. doi: 10.1109/ISBI.2012.6235846

Table 1.

Features used for detection of the TIB patterns. Assume κ1 and κ2 indicate eigenvalues of the local Hessian matrix (He) for any given local patch ℒ, K and H indicate Gaussian and mean curvature respectively, dA is the induced area metrics on Σ, and ds is length metric on ∂Σ.

Extracted features Definition

Willmore Energy Σ |H|2 dA − ∫∂Σ |K|ds
Shape index
SI=2πarctan(κ1+κ2κ1κ2)[1,1]
Gaussian curvature K = κ1κ2
Mean curvature H = (κ1 + κ2) / 2
Elongation κ2 / κ1 with κ2 ≤ κ1
Distortion 1 − κ2|
Shear 1 − κ2)2 / 4
Compactness
1/(4πκ1κ2)

Grey level autocorrelation, contrast, entropy,
Co-Occurrence variance, dissimilarity, homogeneity,
Matrix (GLCM) based cluster shade, energy, max probability,
texture features sum of averages, difference of variance,
sum of squares of variance, mutual information,
sum of variance,sum of entropy
difference of entropy, normalized inverse,
cluster prominence, difference moment.