Can first 7 invariant Hu's moments be extended to 3D?

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I was reading this paper, and in there (3rd page, 18th line from the bottom) the authors have mentioned:

"we calculate ... the first 7 invariant Hu moments over the intensity values of voxels within the candidate mask." (A candidate mask is a 3d mask for a particular lung nodule/false positive candidate in a CT image.)

Everyone around me is saying the Hu's moments are only defined for 2D images. A quick search through literature seems to back them up. So, can anyone guess what the authors are probably doing here? (or Hu's moments can actually be extended to 3D?)

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