Research Article

Solid Indeterminate Nodules with a Radiological Stability Suggesting Benignity: A Texture Analysis of Computed Tomography Images Based on the Kurtosis and Skewness of the Nodule Volume Density Histogram

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Histogram of a malignant nodule with a leptokurtic (i.e., resembling a peak) and negatively skewed distribution (a); histogram of a solid indeterminate nodule with a radiological stability suggesting benignity with a platykurtic distribution curve (i.e., resembling a plateau) and lower SKW (b).
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