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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 May 4.
Published in final edited form as: Arch Environ Occup Health. 2019 May 20;75(3):152–158. doi: 10.1080/19338244.2019.1593099

Table 4.

Number and proportion of large opacities identified by shape and lung zone for each B reader.

Lung zone Reader 1 (n =483) Reader 2 (n =421) Reader 3 (n =227)
Rounded (n =244) Polygonal (n =239) Rounded (n =197) Polygonal (n =224) Rounded (n =159) Polygonal (n =68)
Right Left Right Left Right Left Right Left Right Left Right Left
Upper 80 (0.17) 49 (0.10) 92 (0.19) 74 (0.15) 86 (0.20) 55 (0.13) 90 (0.20) 64 (0.15) 85 (0.37) 48 (0.21) 35 (0.15) 25 (0.11)
Middle 61 (0.13) 36 (0.07) 28 (0.06) 33 (0.07) 30 (0.07) 15 (0.04) 31 (0.10) 24 (0.06) 12 (0.05) 6 (0.03) 4 (0.02) 2 (0.01)
Lower 8 (0.02) 10 (0.02) 5 (0.01) 7 (0.01) 3 (0.01) 8 (0.02) 8 (0.01) 7 (0.02) 5 (0.02) 3 (0.01) 1 (0.00) 1 (0.00)

Values in parentheses represent the proportion of the total number of large opacities identified by shape and specific reader.