Texture Analysis in the Assessment of Rectal Cancer: Comparison of T2WI and Diffusion-Weighted Imaging

Table 3

Texture parameters between the pT1-3a and pT3b-4 stages.

Texture parameters	pT1-3a ()	pT3b-4 ()	value	ICC
T2WI
Skewness			0.185	0.863
Kurtosis			0.002	0.885
Energy (×10^-3)	0.685 (0.580, 0.871)	0.515 (0.452, 0.605)	<0.001	0.847
Entropy	9.226 (8.480, 9.488)	9.590 (9.342, 9.869)	<0.001	0.913
Uniformity			0.228	0.905
Inertia	159.572 (126.822, 195.283)	163.749 (125.463, 203.394)	0.738	0.865
Correlation (×10^-3)			0.508	0.886
ADC
Skewness			0.018	0.838
Kurtosis			0.020	0.875
Energy (×10^-3)	0.949 (0.625, 0.693)	0.690 (0.583, 1.445)	0.102	0.912
Entropy			0.039	0.903
Uniformity			0.502	0.887
Inertia	922.235 (621.034, 1189.230)	737.177 (520.237, 1060.946)	0.086	0.866
Correlation (×10^-3)	0.448 (0.349, 0.638)	0.482 (0.384, 0.641)	0.267	0.903