Table 3.
Inter-Reader Concordance for MRI.
Feature | Reader 1 | Reader 2 | Number Concordant (%) + | Kappa | ||||
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Inter-modality subset+ | All MRI++ | Inter-modality subset+ | All MRI++ | Inter-modality subset+ | All MRI++ | Inter-modality subset | All MRI | |
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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.