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Table 1 Patient characteristics

From: Texture analysis of iodine maps and conventional images for k-nearest neighbor classification of benign and metastatic lung nodules

  Patients with benign lung nodules Patients with lung metastases
Patients 85 98
Patient demographics
Sex (men/women) 47/38 49/49
Mean age (years) 62.7 ± 12.2 63.7± 13.8
Mean Dose (CTDIvol) 14.3 ± 6.7 14.6 ± 6.9
Underlying diseases
Melanoma 18 32
Esophageal cancer 8 5
Sarcoma 7 6
Breast cancer 4 9
Lymphoma 11 1
Colorectal cancer 3 9
Pancreatic cancer 6 5
Renal cell cancer 1 8
Urothelial carcinoma 2 5
Testicular cancer 4 1
Liver cancer 1 3
Ovarian cancer 0 4
Other oncologic diseases 16 10
No oncologic diseases 4 0
Ground truth
Follow-up 80 80
Pathology report 5 17
PET/CT 0 1