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. 2020 Dec 23;7:603303. doi: 10.3389/fmed.2020.603303

Table 2.

Associations (p-value) between texture PET parameters and tumor characteristics.

dbPET PET/CT
Tis-1 vs. T2-4 Luminal A vs. Others Tis-1 vs. T2-4 Luminal A vs. Others
Num of Voxels NS NS 0.0179 NS
SUVsum NS NS 0.0047 0.0284
SDhist <0.0001 NS NS NS
Skewness 0.0003 NS 0.0084 NS
Kurtosis <0.0001 NS 0.0104 0.0152
EnergyHist 0.0003 NS <0.0001 NS
EntropyHist 0.0006 NS <0.0001 NS
HomogeneityGLCM NS NS NS NS
EnergyGLCM NS NS 0.0157 NS
CorrelationGLCM NS NS 0.0359 NS
ContrastGLCM NS NS NS NS
EntropyGLCM <0.0001 0.0404 0.0157 NS
DissimilarityGLCM <0.0001 NS NS NS
SRE 0.0005 NS NS NS
LRE <0.0001 NS NS NS
LGRE <0.0001 NS 0.009 NS
HGRE <0.0001 NS NS NS
SRLGE <0.0001 0.0302 0.0073 NS
SRHGE <0.0001 0.036 NS NS
LRLGE NS NS 0.0097 NS
LRHGE NS NS NS NS
GLNUr NS NS NS NS
RLNU NS NS 0.0147 NS
RP NS NS NS NS
SZE NS NS NS NS
LZE <0.0001 NS NS NS
LGZE <0.0001 NS 0.0058 NS
HGZE <0.0001 NS NS 0.0302
SZLGE <0.0001 NS 0.0128 NS
SZHGE <0.0001 0.032 NS NS
LZLGE NS NS NS NS
LZHGE NS NS NS 0.0196
GLNUz NS NS NS NS
ZSNU 0.0073 NS 0.0084 NS
ZP 0.0318 NS NS NS
CoarsenessNGLDM 0.0032 NS NS NS
ContrastNGLDM <0.0001 NS NS NS
BusynessNGLDM <0.0001 NS 0.0233 NS

Numbers are p-values when there was a significant difference. NS not significant.

SUV, standardized uptake value; SUVsum, sum of SUV; SDhist, standard deviation from a histogram; EnergyHist, energy from a histogram; EntropyHist, entropy from a histogram; GLCM, gray-level cooccurence matrix; SRE, short-run emphasis; LRE, long-run emphasis; LGRE, low gray-level run emphasis; HGRE, high gray-level run emphasis; SRLGE, short-run low gray-level emphasis; SRHGE, short-run high gray-level emphasis; LRLGE, long-run low gray-level emphasis; LRHGE, long-run high gray-level emphasis; GLNUr, gray-level non-uniformity for run; RLNU, run-length non-uniformity; RP, run percentage; SZE, short-zone emphasis; LZE, long-zone emphasis; LGZE, low gray-level zone emphasis; HGZE, high gray-level zone emphasis; SZLGE, short-zone low gray-level emphasis; SZHGE, short-zone high gray-level emphasis; LZLGE, long-zone low gray-level emphasis; LZHGE, long-zone high gray-level emphasis; GLNUz, gray-level non-uniformity for zone; ZSNU, zone-size nonuniformity; ZP, zone percentage; NGLDM, neighborhood gray-level different matrix; CoarsenessNGLDM, coarseness from a NGLDM; ContrastNGLDM, contrast from a NGLDM; BusynessNGLDM, busyness from a NGLDM.