Table 2.
Summary of 199 quantitative histomorphometric features extracted from both the tumor fields and adjacent benign fields
Feature type | No. | Description |
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Nuclear shape | 100 | Area ratio, distance ratio, SD of distance, variance of distance, distance ratio, perimeter ratio, smoothness, invariant moment 1–7, fractal dimension, Fourier descriptor 1–10: mean, SD, median, minimum/maximum of each |
Voronoi diagram | 12 | Polygon area, perimeter, chord length: mean, SD, minimum/maximum ratio, disorder |
Delaunay triangulation | 8 | Triangle side length, area: mean, SD, minimum/maximum ratio, disorder |
Nuclear density | 27 | Density of nuclear centroids, distance to nearest nuclear centroid |
Nuclear subgraphs | 26 | Eccentricity; clustering coefficients C, D, and E; largest connected component: mean, SD |
Nuclear texture | 26 | Entropy, energy, intensity contrast: mean, SD |
SD = standard deviation.