Table 2.
List of selected significant features.
| Sl. no | Selected features | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Texture | Spatial arrangement of image intensity |
| 2 | Spatial structure | Exploit location information |
| 3 | Skewness | Extent to which a distribution differs from a normal distribution |
| 4 | Kurtosis | Pixel intensity distribution |
| 5 | Histogram | Pixel distribution as a function of tonal variation |
| 6 | Correlogram | Spatial correlation of intensity changes with distance |
| 7 | HOG | Count incidences of gradient alignment in localized regions of an image |
| 8 | Gabor wavelet | Frequency-wise intensity variation check in specific direction |
| 9 | Angular 2nd moment | Textural uniformity in image |
| 10 | Shape | Shape characteristics |
| 11 | Sharpness | Degree of clarity in both coarse and fine image detail |
| 12 | Length irregularity | Irregularities of the length of structures in an image |
| 13 | Mean probability density function | Probability that the region brightness is less than or equal to a specified brightness value |
| 14 | Grayscale median | Median of grayscale intensities |
| 15 | Multiregion histogram | Checks whether plaque outer region signifies disease progression |
| 16 | Arterial wall ROI's randomness | Randomness present in the artery wall |
| 17 | Absolute gradient | Directional change in intensity |
| 18 | Angular and radial sum of discrete Fourier transform for Fourier power spectrum | Fourier power spectrum's Fourier transform |
| 19 | Coarseness | Type of texture feature |
| 20 | Convexity | Convex curves present in an image |
| 21 | Connectivity | Connectivity among pixels |
| 22 | Plaque volume | Plaque volume measure |