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

Notes: T2-: texture parameters from the T2WI map; A-: texture parameters from the ADC map.