TABLE 4.
Number of Independent Features per Segmentation Method, Number of Included Features, and Predictive Value for Largest Lesion for All Extracted Features (n = 483) and All Reliable, Repeatable, and Reproducible Features (n = 99)
No. of features | Parameter | Independent of MTV | Independent of SUVpeak | Independent of MTV and SUVpeak | Independent of MTV and SUVpeak and uncorrelated | No. of features in linear regression | CV-AUC (±SD) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
483 | SUV4.0 | 427 | 134 | 85 | 24 | 11 | 0.73 ± 0.10 |
41%max | 409 | 158 | 84 | 19 | 10 | 0.71 ± 0.11 | |
A50P | 424 | 176 | 117 | 21 | 8 | 0.71 ± 0.11 | |
MV2 | 435 | 141 | 93 | 21 | 3 | 0.71 ± 0.10 | |
MV3 | 424 | 173 | 114 | 21 | 5 | 0.69 ± 0.11 | |
Best | 437 | 168 | 122 | 25 | 10 | 0.69 ± 0.11 | |
99 | SUV4.0 | 57 | 46 | 13 | 10 | 5 | 0.73 ± 0.10 |
41%max | 50 | 57 | 14 | 6 | 1 | 0.65 ± 0.11 | |
A50P | 54 | 59 | 20 | 9 | 4 | 0.63 ± 0.11 | |
MV2 | 59 | 52 | 18 | 8 | 3 | 0.70 ± 0.11 | |
MV3 | 54 | 52 | 18 | 7 | 3 | 0.67 ± 0.11 | |
Best | 59 | 55 | 21 | 10 | 3 | 0.69 ± 0.11 |
41%max = 41% of SUVmax; A50P = 50% of SUVpeak; MV2 = majority vote segmenting voxels detected by ≥2 methods; MV3 = majority vote segmenting voxels detected by ≥3 methods.