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. 2018 Mar 28;8:5341. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-23424-0

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Differences between severity groups given by 6 radiomic features. For each radiomic feature, we show the table with the pairwise Kolmogorov-Smirnov that compares HNS = healthy non-smokers, Mild = mild COPD patients, Mod = moderate COPD patients and HS = healthy smokers. The values in italics in yellow shaded boxes indicate the absolute value of the KS score and the values in roman type in blue shaded boxes indicate p-values. The 6 radiomic features analyzed are (A) upwards complexity (see Methods for details), (B) bronchial tree length, (C) emphysema score (as percentage of low attenuation area), (D) volume of the airways (computed as the number of voxels inside the airway structure in Fig. 4A), (E) upwards complexity divided by participant’s height, (F) bronchial tree length divided by participant’s height. The combination of radiomic features A and B can distinguish all groups except for HS from HNS or from Mild, which outperforms the combination of methods C and D.