From: Ranked retrieval of segmented nuclei for objective assessment of cancer gene repositioning
Category | Name | Brief description |
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 | Area | Number of pixels in segmentation mask |
 | Perimeter | Length of segmentation boundary |
 | Perimeter/Area | Perimeter to area ratio |
 | Solidity | Ratio of area to the convex hull area |
 | CH Perimeter / Perimeter | Ratio of convex hull perimeter to object perimeter |
 | Max Circle Ratio | Ratio of the area of the largest inscribed circle to the total area |
 | Ellipse Eccentricity | Eccentricity of the ellipse that has the same second-moments as the mask |
Morphological | Ellipse Error Ratio | Area difference between best-fit ellipse and boundary |
Length | Measure of elongation | |
 | Width | Measure of breadth |
 | Mean Pairwise Distance | Mean all-pairs distance between points on perimeter |
 | Polar Histogram | Measures isotropy of border points at a given angle |
 | Num. Severe Corners | Number of strong corners in segmentation contour |
 | Box-counting Dimension | Fractal dimension of the perimeter |
 | Erosion Profile | Identifies segmentations with narrow passages separating large areas |
 | Elliptical Fourier | Number of elliptical Fourier coefficients to reconstruct the mask to within |
 |  | 10% area error |
 | Mean Intensity | Mean of grayscale intensity inside nucleus |
Texture | Intensity Range | Range of grayscale intensity inside nucleus |
Entropy | Global entropy of grayscale values inside nucleus | |
 | Gray-level Co-occurrence | Statistics of the gray-level co-occurrence matrix |
 | Num. FISH | Number of FISH spots |
 | FISH/Area | Number of FISH spots normalized by area |
FISH | FISH CH Area | Ratio of convex hull area formed on FISH spots to total area |
 | FISH Boundary | Measures whether the FISH convex hull intersects the nuclear boundary |
 | Mean FISH Distance | Mean distance between FISH spots |
 | Num. Nuclei | Number of candidate nuclei in the image |
 | Intensity Ratio | Mean intensity of band surrounding the nucleus compared to the mean intensity inside |
Contextual | Betweenness Centrality | Betweenness centrality of nucleus in a graph connecting nuclei in the image |
Number Neighbors | Number of neighbors connected to the nucleus | |
 | Mean Edge Distance | Mean edge distance to 1st-level neighbors |