Customized First and Second Order Statistics Based Operators to Support Advanced Texture Analysis of MRI Images

Table 1

Relationship between the customized first and second order statistics based operators. The value from 1 (low) to 4 (high) points out the dependence level between two operators.

Operators	𝑀(𝑛1)	𝐶(𝑛2)	HG(𝑑)(𝑛3)	CT(𝑑)(𝑛4,𝑛5)	ID(𝑑)(𝑛6,𝑛7)	ET(𝑑)(𝑛8,𝑛9)	CR(𝑑)(𝑛10,𝑛11)	DE(𝑑)(𝑛12,𝑛13)
𝑀(𝑛1)	⋯	4	3	3	2	2	1	2
𝐶(𝑛2)	4	⋯	2	3	2	3	2	2
HG(𝑑)(𝑛3)	3	2	⋯	4	3	3	1	1
CT(𝑑)(𝑛4,𝑛5)	3	3	4	⋯	3	2	2	2
ID(𝑑)(𝑛6,𝑛7)	2	2	3	3	⋯	4	3	2
ET(𝑑)(𝑛8,𝑛9)	2	3	3	2	4	⋯	3	3
CR(𝑑)(𝑛10,𝑛11)	1	2	1	2	3	3	⋯	4
DE(𝑑)(𝑛12,𝑛13)	2	2	1	2	2	3	4	⋯