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Table 6 List of most discriminating features between high and low ODx risk category for each feature family and corresponding p values from WRST for each of the different comparisons

From: Quantitative nuclear histomorphometric features are predictive of Oncotype DX risk categories in ductal carcinoma in situ: preliminary findings

Feature family

Feature name

High vs. low ODx

High vs. intermediate ODx

Low vs. intermediate ODx

Global Graph

Average number of neighbor nuclei in a distance of a 50-pixel radius corresponding to each cancer nucleus

0.007

0.08

0.3

Shape

Symmetry of nuclei shape

0.005

0.3

0.3

CCG

The ratio of the number of existed edges to all possible edges connecting the nodes in one local cell cluster

0.001

0.08

0.6

CORE

Mean information measure1

0.0002

0.005

0.7

Texture

Standard deviation of pixel-wise gray-level distribution across nuclei

0.001

0.05

0.5