“…Texture analysis for computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) in medical images has been studied in many disciplines including the diagnosis of breast cancer in mammograms [1][2][3][4][5], lung nodules in chest radiographs [6][7][8], osteoporosis in bone x-ray images [9][10][11], and abnormalities in kidney and liver [12][13][14]. Analysis is typically based on regions-of-interest (ROIs).…”