Spectral discrimination of breast pathologies in situusing spatial frequency domain imaging

Breast Cancer Research

Table 3 Spectral-immunohistochemical correlates

	Scattering amplitude	Scattering slope	Hemoglobin concentration	% Hemoglobin oxygenation	% Water
% Epithelium	−0.06	*−0.37*	*0.27*	−0.11	−0.21
% Stroma	0.06	*0.33*	*−0.28*	0.09	*0.25*
% Fat	−0.02	−0.01	0.21	0.02	*−0.28*
Total mean vessel density	0.18	*−0.42*	*0.37*	−0.19	0.00
Total mean vessel area	0.01	*−0.34*	0.12	*−0.28*	0.02

The Pearson correlation coefficient is tabulated for spectral-immunohistochemical pairs. Negative and positive correlations >20% are highlighted in italics.

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