Table 5:
Inter-rater agreement and reliability using videostroboscopy and high-speed videoendoscopy dynamically interlinked with digital kymography. Agreement is reported as the percentage of direct agreement within the range of one level of the feature-specific scale. Reliability is reported by Spearman correlations, which are statistically significant at p<0.0001 (*), Cohen’s Kappa (κ), and the intraclass correlation as well as the 95% confidence intervals for κ and the ICC.
| Vibratory Feature | % Agree (n) | Spearman’s p | ICC (95% CI) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VS | HSV+DKG | VS | HSV+DKG | VS | HSV+DKG | |
| Left Mucosal Wave | 61 | 84 | 0.72* | 0.85* | 0.31 (0.10–0.49) | 0.60 (0.45–0.71) |
| Right Mucosal Wave | 60 | 91 | 0.84* | 0.90* | 0.55 (0.37–0.68) | 0.84 (0.77–0.88) |
| Left Amplitude | 96 | 94 | 0.84* | 0.81* | 0.57 (0.41–0.69) | 0.47 (0.30–0.60) |
| Right Amplitude | 96 | 96 | 0.86* | 0.84* | 0.64 (0.50–0.74) | 0.63 (0.49–0.73) |
| Left-Right Phase Asymmetry | 86 | 90 | 0.70* | 0.77* | 0.33 (0.10–0.51) | 0.60 (0.45–0.71) |
| Left Vocal Fold Edge | 93 | 100 | 0.75* | 0.86* | 0.58 (0.42–0.71) | 0.53 (0.37–0.65) |
| Right Vocal Fold Edge | 92 | 99 | 0.72* | 0.84* | 0.51 (0.34–0.64) | 0.57 (0.42–0.68) |
| Cohen’s κ (95% CI) | ||||||
| Left Vertical Phase Difference | 88 | 87 | -- | -- | 0.12 (0.05–0.24) | 0.08 (0.04–0.21) |
| Right Vertical Phase Difference | 85 | 88 | -- | -- | 0.06 (0.01–0.15) | 0.07 (0.05–0.32) |
VS=videostroboscopy; HSV+DKG=high-speed videoendoscopy dynamically interlinked with digital kymography; ICC=intraclass correlation; CI=confidence interval