Research Article

Automated Cell Selection Using Support Vector Machine for Application to Spectral Nanocytology

Table 2

Top ranked features for the classifier.

FeaturesDefinitionNote

Eccentricity : semimajor and semiminor axes

Solidity : area of the shape region; : convex hull area of the shape

Normalized kurtosis : mean of ; : standard deviation of

Normalized variance

Entropy : counts from intensity histogram

Energy is the sum of the concurrence matrices with offset of 5 pixels in eight neighborhoods [36]

Variance of image filtered with Gabor filter [37]: the orientation of the filter, averaged over 4 directions