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Published in final edited form as: Expert Rev Precis Med Drug Dev. 2016 Mar 31;1(2):207–226. doi: 10.1080/23808993.2016.1164013

Table 1.

Quantitative values of first order statistical entropy as reported in the literature

Reference	Tissue	Image/Object type	Pathology
				Benign	Malignant
Sinha et al⁷⁶	Breast	Normalized radial length of tumor		1.46	1.6
Ertas et al³⁵	Breast	nMITR projection		5.4	6.77
Suo et al⁵⁷	Urinary bladder	DWI, b=700		4.08	4.06
	Urinary bladder	DWI, b=1500		3.97	3.78
Kierans et al⁵¹	Adnexal lesion	ADC		4.54	4.94
				Low grade	High grade
Ryu et al⁵⁶	Glioma	ADC		6.26	6.86
				Volunteers	Healthy
Brinkmann et al²²	Liver	MRS		7.6	4.7
			Healthy adult	Elderly	CSM patients
Cui et al¹⁸⁷	Spinal cord	FA map	6.07	6.01	5.32
			Young	Middle aged	Non demented elderly	Elderly (AD)
Chen et al⁴⁸	Brain	cortical surface structure	1.2	1.24	1.28	1.33

nMITR= normalized maximum intensity-time ratio, FA=fractional anisotropy and AD =Alzheimer’s disease ^{22,35,48,51,56,57,76,187}.