Table 1 Studies correlating texture features to other imaging and biological parameters
From: Assessment of tumor heterogeneity: an emerging imaging tool for clinical practice?
Cancer type | Features investigated | Correlate | Author, year |
|---|---|---|---|
Esophagus | Non-contrast CT. Coarse texture uniformity (r = −0.754, p < 0.0001) | SUVmean | Ganeshan et al., 2012 [33] |
Entropy (r = 0.748, p = 0.0001) |  |  | |
NSCLC | Contrast-enhanced CT | SUVmax | Al-Kadi et al., 2008 [12] |
Fractal dimension | Â | Â | |
NSCLC | Non-contrast CT | SUVmax | Ganeshan et al., 2008 [44] |
Coarse texture | Â | Â | |
Uniformity (r = −0.52, p = 0.03) |  |  | |
Entropy (r = 0.51, p = 0.03) |  |  | |
NSCLC | Contrast-enhanced CT | Histological: CD34 and pimonidazole | Ganeshan et al., 2012 [35] |
Medium and coarse texture; SDa (r = −0.579, p < 0.001) (r = 0.591, p < 0.001) |  |  |