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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Hum Pathol. 2016 Dec 30;62:50–55. doi: 10.1016/j.humpath.2016.12.017

Table 1.

Summary data for histologic findings (n=40 in the training slide set)

Gold
standard
Path 1 Path 2 Path 3 Path 4 Path 5 Path 6
Max eosinophil count
  (mean eos/hpf ± SD)
101 ± 107 72 ± 75 113 ± 115 111 ± 109 87 ± 94 77 ± 71 72 ± 72
Mean eosinophil count
  (mean eos/hpf ± SD)
53 ± 60 44 ± 51 72 ± 78 46 ± 46 41 ± 47 42 ± 45 38 ± 40
Diagnostic threshold
assessment (n, %)
  Above ≥15 eos/hpf 27 (68) 28 (70) 26 (65) 29 (73) 26 (65) 27 (68) 29 (73)
  Overdiagnosisa -- 2 (5) 0 (0) 2 (5) 1 (3) 1 (3) 2 (5)
  Underdiagnosisb -- 1 (3) 1 (3) 0 (0) 2 (5) 1 (3) 0 (0)
Associated findings (n, %)
  Degranulation 27 (68) 34 (85) 26 (65) 23 (58) 28 (70) 32 (80) 24 (60)
  Microabscesses 17 (43) 18 (45) 19 (48) 12 (30) 13 (33) 28 (70) 26 (65)
  Spongiosis 29 (73) 28 (70) 24 (60) 20 (50) 32 (80) 31 (78) 29 (73)
a

indicates a slide was assessed to have ≥15 eos/hpf when the gold standard did not

b

indicated a slides was assessed to have <15 eos/hpf when the gold standard had ≥15 eos/hpf