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. 2019 Apr 19;2(4):e192561. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2019.2561

Table 2. Features and Performance for Intratumoral Only and Combined Intratumoral and Peritumoral Region Classifiers in Distinguishing HER2+ From Other Receptor Subtypes and Stratifying HER2+ by Molecular Subtype.

Region Feature Signature Performance
Group Descriptor Statistic P Value AUC (95% CI) P Value
HER2+ vs HR-Positive, HER2−
Intratumoral
Gabor Width, 6 px; orientation, 67.5° Kurtosis .01 0.69 (0.65-0.73) <.001
GLCM Energy Kurtosis .10
Gabor Width, 8 px; orientation, 67.5° Kurtosis .08
Laws Spot-edge Median .007
CoLlAGe Sum average Skewness .003
Intratumoral and peritumoral 0.71 (0.67-0.75) <.001
Tumor Gabor Width, 16 px; orientation, 67.5° Kurtosis .01
Tumor GLCM Energy Kurtosis .10
9-12 mm Gabor Width, 32 px; orientation, 112.5° Kurtosis .02
Tumor Laws Spot-edge Median .007
Tumor CoLlAGe Sum average Skewness .003
HER2+ vs TN
Intratumoral 0.73 (0.67-0.79) .002
Laws Edge-level Median .05
Gabor Width, 8 px; orientation, 45° Kurtosis .22
Laws Ripple-ripple Kurtosis .06
Gabor Width, 2 px; orientation, 0° Kurtosis .16
GLCM Energy Skewness .12
Intratumoral and peritumoral 0.80 (0.76-0.84) <.001
9-12 mm Gabor Width, 4 px; orientation, 90° SD <.001
Tumor Gabor Width, 8 px; orientation, 45° Kurtosis .22
Tumor Laws Edge-level Median .05
9-12 mm Gabor Width, 4 px; orientation, 67.5° Mean <.001
9-12 mm GLCM Sum variance Kurtosis .49
HER2+ vs All
Intratumoral
Gabor Width, 6 px; orientation,67.5° Kurtosis .01 0.65 (0.59-0.71) 0.006
GLCM Energy Kurtosis .05
Gabor Width, 8 px; orientation, 67.5° Kurtosis .05
Laws Spot-edge Median .02
Gabor Width, 8 px; orientation, 45° Kurtosis .05
Intratumoral and peritumoral
Tumor Gabor Width, 16 px; orientation, 67.5° Kurtosis .01 0.71 (0.63-0.79) <.001
Tumor GLCM Energy Kurtosis .05
6-9 mm Laws Ripple-ripple Kurtosis .05
Tumor Laws Spot-edge Median .02
0-3 mm GLCM Info2 Kurtosis .05
HER2-E vs Non–HER2-E
Intratumoral
Gabor Width, 4 px; orientation, 135° Kurtosis .02 0.76 (0.69-0.84) <.001
Laws Ripple-ripple Kurtosis .02
Gabor Width, 16 px; orientation, 112.5° Kurtosis .05
Gabor Width, 16 px; orientation, 45° Kurtosis .43
CoLlAGe Energy Kurtosis .03
Intratumoral and peritumoral
Tumor Laws Ripple-Ripple Kurtosis .02 0.89 (0.84-0.93) <.001
Tumor Gabor Width, 16 px; orientation, 112.5° Kurtosis .05
6-9 mm CoLlAGe Energy Kurtosis .04
Tumor Gabor Width, 4 px; orientation, 135° Kurtosis .02
9-12 mm CoLlAGe Inertia Median .002

Abbreviations: AUC, area under the receiver operating characteristic curve; CoLlAGe, co-occurrence of local anisotropic gradient orientation features; GLCM, Gray level co-occurrence matrix features; HER2-E, HER2-enriched; HR, hormone receptor; px, pixels; TN, triple-negative.