Table 2.

Significance information model classes for radiology report summaries and their corresponding descriptions and examples

Significance class	Description	Example
Significant	Finding may or likely cause harm without initiation of treatment or change in management	“bilateral pulmonary and right pleural nodules suspicious for a metastases”
Normal or insignificant	Finding is normal or unlikely to cause harm without initiation of treatment or change in management	“minor airway secretions”, “no definite new nodules”
Indeterminate	Unable to draw conclusions from imaging	“small mediastinal lymph nodes that do not meet criteria for lymphadenopathy”