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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Oct 23.
Published in final edited form as: Eur J Radiol. 2022 Sep 8;156:110515. doi: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2022.110515

Table 3.

Inter-Reader Concordance for MRI.

Feature Reader 1 Reader 2 Number Concordant (%) + Kappa




Inter-modality subset+ All MRI++ Inter-modality subset+ All MRI++ Inter-modality subset+ All MRI++ Inter-modality subset All MRI

Opacity Present 84/88 338/424 77/88 320/424 79/88 (89.8) 360/424 0.36 0.57
(95.5) (79.7) (87.5) (75.5) (84.9)
Opacity Extent 38/88 (43.2) 202/424 0.38 0.32
 0—no opacity 4 86 11 104 (47.6)
 1— <25 % 32 163 26 121
 2–25 - <50 % 31 105 24 72
 3–50 - <75 % 15 51 17 86
 4— >75 % 6 19 10 41
Opacity Distribution 73/88 (83) 296/424 0.55 0.46
 None 4 82 9 103 (69.8)
 Peripheral 16 91 10 51
 Central and 67 243 69 269
 Peripheral Central 1 8 0 1
Subpleural Lines 17 41 19 85 80/88 (90.9) 366/424 (86.3) 0.72 0.47
Subpleural Reticulation 52 125 47 94 57/88 (64.8) 321/424 (75.7) 0.29 0.37
+

Denominator is 88, corresponding to number of lung quadrants scored by each reader, in the 22 exams used for inter-modality assessment.

++

Denominator is 424, corresponding to number of lung quadrant scored by each reader, in all 106 low-field MRI exams.