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. 2021 May 24;19:3255–3268. doi: 10.1016/j.csbj.2021.05.038

Table 3.

TCGA data: descriptive statistics including the sample size and bag size (i.e., the number of instances per bag) for selected cancer types.


Sample size
Bag size
Cancer type Total Mean (SD) Total Mean (SD) Total
Proportion of positive bags 10% 50% 10% 50%
DLBC 225 90 6.4 (13.8) 1446 11.8 (21.8) 1063
THYM 225 216 6.3 (14.2) 1421 15.2 (24.5) 3277
ESCA 225 332 8.8 (24.5) 1979 10.2 (20.6) 3380
BRCA 225 404 5.3 (12.9) 1200 5.6 (12.6) 2255
KIRC 225 404 6.0 (17.0) 1347 6.2 (10.3) 2518
LUAD 225 404 4.5 (14.5) 1018 4.9 (12.9) 1974
LUSC 225 404 4.9 (10.7) 1093 4.0 (6.3) 1622
OV 225 404 5.6 (11.1) 1263 9.1 (17.3) 3670
SKCM 225 404 5.8 (12.0) 1306 6.2 (13.2) 2515
STAD 225 404 9.9 (23.9) 2221 18.3 (31.9) 7401