Table 6.

Significance testing of the textural descriptors between PDAC and normal pancreatic tissue, and PDAC and chronic pancreatitis tissues.

Textural Descriptor	Normal Tissue	Chronic Pancreatitis
	p-Values Compared to PDAC Tissues (* p < 0.05)
Energy	<0.0001 *	<0.0001 *
Contrast	<0.0001 *	<0.0001 *
Correlation	<0.0001 *	0.3614
Variance	<0.0001 *	<0.0001 *
Homogeneity	<0.0001 *	<0.0001 *
Sum Average	<0.0001 *	<0.0001 *
Sum Variance	<0.0001 *	<0.0001 *
Sum Entropy	<0.0001 *	<0.0001 *
Entropy	<0.0001 *	<0.0001 *
Difference Variance	<0.0001 *	<0.0001 *
Difference Entropy	<0.0001 *	<0.0001 *
Information Measure of Correlation I	0.0006 *	0.7915
Information Measure of Correlation II	<0.0001 *	<0.0001 *
Maximal Correlation Coefficient	<0.0001 *	0.0230 *
Kurtosis	<0.0001 *	<0.0001 *