Table 1 Comparison of SPHARM coefficients and our morphometry descriptors for single cell fibroblast nuclei classification.

From: 3D Shape Modeling for Cell Nuclear Morphological Analysis and Classification

Classification algorithm

SPHARM coefficients, mean AUC (±SD)

Surface morphometry measures, mean AUC (±SD)

k-Nearest Neighbors

0.556 ± 0.103

0.629 ± 0.204

Linear SVM

0.593 ± 0.165

0.677 ± 0.354

Gaussian SVM

0.513 ± 0.145

0.682 ± 0.264

Random Forest

0.619 ± 0.175

0.645 ± 0.200

AdaBoost

0.612 ± 0.246

0.663 ± 0.252

Gradient Boosting

0.620 ± 0.234

0.674 ± 0.229