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Table 2 The process of variable selection

From: Characterizing mammographic images by using generic texture features

Feature group

Total

features

Preselected featuresa

Selected features

within feature groupb

Features

finally selectedc

Moment-based features

76

71

8

1

Form-based features

86

74

16

4

Statistical features

130

86

46

29

Structural features

108

90

23

10

Spectral features

70

21

6

2

Total

470

342

99

46

  1. Numbers of features are shown. aPreselection due to high correlations between features. bFeature group scores were constructed with these features. cThe final score was constructed with these features.