“…Although texture analysis used images acquired by diagnostic practice, it involves an ensemble of mathematical computations performed with information contained within the images [33]. Texture features extracted from medical images have been demonstrated to provide incremental diagnostic, therapeutic, and prognostic information in many disease entities including various types of cancer [16,17,34], cerebral vascular accident [14,18], liver cirrhosis [35], gastro-intestinal diseases [36], retinal degeneration, and osteoarthritis [37], to list only a few. In heart diseases, texture analysis has been successfully applied to cardiac ultrasonography for myocardial tissue characterization after acute MI [38].…”