Table 5. Comparison of independent review vs the consensus reading as standard using kappa statistics (with Bonferroni adjustment for multiple tests) and confidence limitsa.
Table of kappa scores (with confidence limits) |
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Standard vs | Sag T1 anatomy | Sag T1 artefact | Sag T2 anatomy | Sag T2 artefact | Ax T1 anatomy | Ax T1 artefact | Ax T2 anatomy | Ax T2 artefact | SPACE anatomy | SPACE artefact |
Reviewer 2 | ||||||||||
Kappa | 0.835 | 0.845 | 0.883 | 0.878 | 0.829 | 0.907 | 0.849 | 0.921 | 0.152 | 0.920 |
Low CL | 0.620 | 0.671 | 0.719 | 0.748 | 0.671 | 0.783 | 0.687 | 0.835 | −0.324 | 0.782 |
Upper CL | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 0.987 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 0.628 | 1.000 |
Reviewer 1 | ||||||||||
Kappa | 0.923 | 0.898 | 0.886 | 0.862 | 0.933 | 0.920 | 0.970 | 0.959 | 0.051 | 0.962 |
Low CL | 0.780 | 0.752 | 0.709 | 0.718 | 0.837 | 0.831 | 0.899 | 0.896 | −0.424 | 0.889 |
Upper CL | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 0.526 | 1.000 |
Ax, axial; Sag, sagittal; CL, confidence limit; SPACE, sampling perfection with application-optimised contrasts using different flip angle evolutions.
ap-values for all comparisons except SPACE anatomy are (non-significant) p<0.001.