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Table 4 Description of generic feature descriptors and their related references

From: HCS-Neurons: identifying phenotypic changes in multi-neuron images upon drug treatments of high-content screening

Descriptor Name

Number of Features

Type of Feature

Parameter Setup

Reference

Zernike Moment

4,9,25,81

B/W

2nd, 4th, 8th ,16th moment orders.

[29]

Legendre Moment

9,25,81,289

B/W

2nd, 4th, 8th ,16th moment orders.

[30]

Tchebichef Moment

9,25,81,289

B/W

2nd, 4th, 8th ,16th moment orders.

[31]

Generic Fourier

60

B/W

5 angles and 12 frequencies.

[32]

Haralick Texture

180

Gray-Scaled

18 Haralick texture measurements from 8-bins gray-levels coocurence matrix (GLCM) created from 1 to 5 pixel distances with 0, 45, 90, 135 angles.

[33, 45]

Gabor

60

Gray-Scaled

6 levels of orientation and 5 levels of scaling.

[34]

Daubechies4

30

Gray-Scaled

10 level wavelet decomposition

[34]

NeurphologyJ

13

B/W

Contrast = 13, Soma intensity = 288, Neurite width = 5 and Particle cleanup = 15

[3]