Research Article
Texture Analysis in the Assessment of Rectal Cancer: Comparison of T2WI and Diffusion-Weighted Imaging
Table 6
Correlations between significant different parameters from the T2WI and ADC maps and pathological T and N stages.
| Parameters | Pathological T stage | Parameters | Pathological N stage | | value | | value |
| T2-kurtosis | 0.266 | 0.001 | T2-skewness | 0.229 | 0.005 | T2-energy | -0.494 | <0.001 | T2-energy | -0.359 | <0.001 | T2-entropy | 0.445 | <0.001 | T2-entropy | 0.175 | 0.035 | A-skewness | 0.199 | 0.016 | A-skewness | 0.196 | 0.018 | A-kurtosis | 0.235 | 0.004 | A-kurtosis | 0.168 | 0.043 | A-entropy | 0.221 | 0.007 | | | |
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Notes: T2-: texture parameters from the T2WI map; A-: texture parameters from the ADC map.
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