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Published in final edited form as: Math Model Nat Phenom. 2014 Jul 17;9(5):177–193. doi: 10.1051/mmnp/20149512

Table 1.

Mean tortuosity scores using different metrics. Data are in the form: mean ± SD; p < 0.0001. The values are obtained from 8 sample images for each population.

Sample tissue	EMD	KLD	ℓ²	ENTROPY
Wild type	28.1 ± 3.4	32.8 ± 3.4	1.9 ± 0.07	4.7 ± 0.11
Transgenic	37.3 ± 1.5	45.8 ± 1.9	1.5 ± 0.02	4.9 ± 0.01