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. 2015 Mar 4;10(3):e0118261. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0118261

Table 1. Distribution of study population demographics and imaging parameters by imaging biomarkers in Cohort 1.

Imaging biomarkers
Entropy ratio Tumor volume Convexity
Characteristic 1 No. (%) Mean (SD) Mean (SD) Mean (SD)
Overall 61 (100.0) 1.41 (0.26) 7884.6 (11205.9) 0.87 (0.07)
Demographics
  Age at diagnosis
    < 65 20 (32.8) 1.42 (0.05) 11436.4 (3651.2) 0.87 (0.02)
    ≥ 65 41 (67.2) 1.40 (0.04) 6152.0 (1129.7) 0.86 (0.01)
P-value 0.834 0.084 0.829
  Gender
    Female 30 (49.2) 1.35 (0.04) 6467.9 (1462.0) 0.87 (0.1)
    Male 31 (50.8) 1.46 (0.05) 9255.6 (2444.3) 0.87 (0.1)
P-value 0.102 0.336 0.995
  Stage
    Stage I 25 (41.0) 1.36 (0.27) 5875.2 (10830.4) 0.87 (0.07)
    Stage II 19 (31.2) 1.44 (0.24) 9791.5 (10927.1) 0.86 (0.09)
    Stages III and IV 17 (27.8) 1.42 (0.25) 8708.2 (12217.9) 0.87 (0.07)
P-value 0.590 0.493 0.817
Imaging Parameters
  Voltage, KvP
    120 57 (93.4) 1.42 (0.26) 8187.2 (11510.8) 0.87 (0.08)
    130 or 140 4 (6.6) 1.22 (0.19) 3572.3 (3406.5) 0.85 (0.03)
P-value 0.124 0.431 0.761
  Convolution kernel
    B30F 8 (13.1) 1.47 (0.24) 3314.3 (4500.1) 0.845 (0.13)
    B40f 19 (31.2) 1.31 (0.15) 11752.4 1(5712.3) 0.837 (0.07)
    B41F 22 (36.1) 1.46 (0.25) 6487.3 (7959.1) 0.889 (0.05)
    Other 2 12 (19.7) 1.44 0.37) 7369.0 (10095.2) 0.884 (0.08)
P-value 0.222 0.269 0.101
  Slice thickness, mm
    <5.0 18 (29.5) 1.47 (0.26) 9836.8 0.844 (0.10)
    ≥ 5.0 43 (70.5) 1.38 (0.25) 7067.4 (11301.7) 0.875 (0.06)
P-value 0.181 0.383 0.142
  Pixel resolution 3 , mm
    < 0.6926 20 (32.8) 1.44 (0.25) 8013.6 (10733.4) 0.875 (0.06)
    ≥ 0.6926 to < 0.7785 20 (32.8) 1.36 (0.21) 10414.8 (14356.6) 0.878 (0.09)
    ≥ 0.7785 21 (34.4) 1.49 (0.29) 5352.1 (7636.5) 0.845 (0.09)
P-value 0.529 0.357 0.290

1 96.7% (No. = 59) of this study population were ever smokers and 96.7% (No. = 59) were White race

2 Other includes B30s, B41s, B70s, CHST, FC01, FC13, LUNG, and STANDARD

3 Distribution based on the tertile values