Table 3.

The consistencies of different endoscopic magnification methods and pathology for diagnosis of gastric cancer.

Endoscopic methods	Patients	Pathological diagnosis		Sensitivity (%)	Specificity (%)	Consistency (%)	Kappa
		Non-cancerous lesions (n=224)	Cancerous lesions (n=25)
White light magnification				72.0	95.5	93.2	0.642
Non-cancerous lesions	221	214	7
Cancerous lesions	28	10	18
BLI-contrast magnification				92.0	98.2	97.6a	0.871
Non-cancerous lesions	222	220	2
Cancerous lesions	27	4	23
BLI-bright magnification				92.0	99.1	98.4a	0.911
Non-cancerous lesions	224	222	2
Cancerous lesions	25	2	23

^aCompared with the single magnification of white light,

^ap<0.05