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

Table 4

Texture parameters between the pN0 and pN1-2 stages.

Texture parameters	pN0 ()	pN1-2 ()	value	ICC
T2WI
Skewness			0.007	0.852
Kurtosis			0.911	0.856
Energy (×10^-3)	0.639 (0.530, 0.786)	0.516 (0.437, 0.613)	<0.001	0.867
Entropy	9.342 (8.788, 9.662)	9.537 (9.135, 9.773)	0.039	0.883
Uniformity			0.333	0.915
Inertia	163.749 (125.463, 203.394)	157.387 (119.347, 184.395)	0.186	0.856
Correlation (×10^-3)			0.729	0.863
ADC
Skewness			0.045	0.878
Kurtosis			0.033	0.863
Energy (×10^-3)	0.832 (0.589, 1.493)	0.710 (0.592, 1.503)	0.747	0.902
Entropy			0.722	0.893
Uniformity			0.392	0.907
Inertia	830.845 (529.492, 1116.510)	918.167 (593.935, 1180.040)	0.202	0.916
Correlation (×10^-3)	0.484 (0.377, 0.734)	0.458 (0.373, 0.637)	0.330	0.905