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Table 3 Radiomics features extracted from each brain metastasis

From: A preliminary PET radiomics study of brain metastases using a fully automatic segmentation method

Parent matrix

Feature measure

Cooccurrence matrix (7 features)

Second angular moment, contrast, entropy, homogeneity, dissimilarity, Inverse difference moment, correlation

Voxel-alignment matrix (11 features)

Short-run emphasis, long-run emphasis, intensity variability, run-length variability, run percentage, low-intensity run emphasis, high-intensity run emphasis,

low-intensity short-run emphasis, high-intensity short-run emphasis, low-intensity long-run emphasis, high-intensity long-run emphasis

Neighborhood intensity difference matrix (5 features)

Coarseness, contrast, busyness, complexity, strength

Intensity size-zone matrix (11 features)

Short-zone emphasis, large-zone emphasis, intensity variability, size-zone variability, zone percentage, low-intensity zone emphasis, high-intensity zone emphasis, low-intensity short-zone emphasis, high-intensity short-zone emphasis, low-intensity large-zone emphasis, high-intensity large-zone emphasis

Normalized cooccurrence matrix (6 features)

Second angular moment, contrast, entropy, homogeneity, inverse difference moment, dissimilarity

Texture spectrum (2 features)

Max spectrum, Black-white symmetry

Texture feature coding (4 features)

Coarseness, homogeneity, mean convergence, variance

Texture feature coding cooccurrence matrix (8 features)

Second angular moment, contrast, entropy, homogeneity, intensity, inverse difference moment, correlation, variance, code similarity

Neighborhood gray-level dependence (5 features)

Small-number emphasis, large-number emphasis, number nonuniformity, second moment, entropy

SUV indices (49 features)

Minimum SUV, SUVmax, mean SUV, SUV variance, SUV SD, SUV skewness, SUV kurtosis, SUV skewness (and with bias corrected), SUV kurtosis (and with bias corrected), TLG, tumor volume, entropy, SULpeak, Surface area, Asphericity 1and 2 and 3, Surface mean SUV 1 and 2 and 3 and 4, Surface total SUV 1 and 2 and 3 and 4, Surface SUV entropy 1 and 2 and 3 and 4, Surface SUV variance 1 and 2 and 3 and 4, Surface SUV SD 1 and 2 and 3 and 4, Surface SUV NSR 1 and 2 and 3 and 4, SUVmean prod asphericity, SUVmax prod asphericity, Entropy prod asphericity, SULpeak prod asphericity, SUVmean prod surface area, SUVmax prod surface area, Entropy prod surface area, SULpeak prod surface area