Research Article

Diagnosis System for Hepatocellular Carcinoma Based on Fractal Dimension of Morphometric Elements Integrated in an Artificial Neural Network

Table 4

Distribution of FDs obtained for individual cell nuclei and blood vessels via automated analysis. This data constituted input parameters for the first ANN.

Cell nucleiBlood vessels

Median FD per element
 HCC1.781.83
 LM1.641.41
 Normal tissue1.211.12
Minimum FD per element
 HCC1.231.63
 LM1.181.11
 Normal tissue1.031.02
Maximum FD per element
 HCC1.911.96
 LM1.941.63
 Normal tissue1.681.36