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. 2013 Mar 22;14:106. doi: 10.1186/1471-2474-14-106

Table 2.

Weighted kappa and CI for inter- and intra-reader reliability

  Inter-reader1 Intra-reader1
Cartilage I
0.59 (0.31;0.87)
0.81 (0.71;0.91)
Cartilage II
0.71 (0.42;1.00)
0.75 (0.62;0.88)
Bone Marrow Lesions
-
-
Size score
0.65 (0.47;0.83)
0.66 (0.56;0.76)
Percentage BML score
0.72 (0.50;0.94)
0.76 (0.64;0.88)
Adjacency score
0.70 (0.48;0.92)
0.78 (0.66;0.90)
Osteophytes
0.71 (0.48;0.94)
0.81 (0.82;0.90)
Effusion
0.51 (0.21;0.81)
0.72 (0.61;0.83)
Synovitis (whole knee)
0.66 (0.42;0.90)
0.70 (0.60;0.80)
Synovitis (subscale)
0.61 (0.27;0.95)
0.58 (0.41;0.75)
Meniscal Extrusion
0.63 (0.38;0.88)
0.67 (0.55;0.79)
Meniscal Signal
0.80 (0.54;1.00)
0.80 (0.67;0.93)
Meniscal Tear 0.70 (0.38;1.00) 0.90 (0.80;1.00)

1 Validated on 20 patients consecutively selected according to protocol.