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Table 5.

Summary of quantitative values of four GLCM based features obtained using post contrast enhanced breast MRI images for benign and malignant lesions as reported in the literature ^{65,66,76,85,94}.

Image Metrics					Benign lesion				Malignant lesion
Reference	Acquisition	Pre-processing	gray levels	Dimension	ASM	Entropy	Contrast	Correlation	ASM	Entropy	Contrast	Correlation
Sinha et al⁷⁶	Post contrast DCE-MRI	None	16	2D	0.02	1.96	34.3	-	0.01	2.27	535.8	-
Ahmed et al⁶⁶	Post contrast DCE-MRI	H.Eq	16	2D	-	-	-	-	0.01	7.13	8.5	0.8
Gibbs et al^65,85	Post contrast DCE-MRI	H,Eq	32	2D	0.004	5.85	25.5	0.84	0.004	5.94	23.2	0.86
Chen et al⁶³	Post contrast DCE-MRI	H.Eq	32	2D	0.01	5.41	52.1	0.6	0.01	5.44	75.8	0.6
Chen et al⁶⁵	Post contrast DCE-MRI	H.Eq	32	3D	0.01	5.12	67.5	0.5	0.01	5.26	69.2	0.55
Karahiliou et al⁹⁴	SER map	None	64	2D	0.025	1.71	12.8	0.37	0.01	2.12	23.8	0.51

H.Eq =histogram equalization, SER= signal enhancement ratio and ASM = angular second moment.