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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Stroke. 2017 Oct 13;48(11):3026–3033. doi: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.117.018227

Table 3.

Inter-rater agreement for LI and IVWI assessments.

Rater* Agreement
Variable R1 R2 P-value % Agree Cohen’s κ (95% CI)
Luminal Imaging
 Pattern of involvement§ Concentric 108 (55.7) 45 (23.2) <0.001 47.9% 0.02 (−0.07–0.11)
Eccentric 86 (44.3) 149 (76.8)
 Diagnosis ICAD 69 (34.3) 152 (75.6) <0.001 35.3% 0.04 (−0.03–0.12)
RCVS 13 (6.5) 5 (2.5)
IVas 25 (12.4) 22 (10.9)
Uncertain/equivocal 94 (46.8) 22 (10.9)
Vessel Wall Imaging
 Diagnosis ICAD 81 (40.3) 93 (46.3) 0.003 81.6% 0.72 (0.64–0.80)
RCVS 55 (27.4) 65 (32.3)
IVas 62 (30.8) 43 (21.4)
Uncertain/equivocal 3 (1.5) 0 (0.0)

ICAD = intracranial atherosclerotic disease; LI = luminal imaging; RCVS = reversible cerebral vasoconstrictive syndrome; IVas = inflammatory vasculopathy; IVWI = vessel wall imaging;

*

Values are no. (%);

Test for average difference between raters;

Percent of lesions where raters gave the same classification;

§

Excluding 7 lesions where one rater did not determine eccentricity.