Table 3:
CS-SENSE and conventional MRI interrater agreement
| Metric | SAG FLAIR (n = 35 Exams) |
AX SPGR (n = 34 Exams) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CS-SENSE |
Conventional |
CS-SENSE |
Conventional |
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| κ | (95% CI) | κ | (95% CI) | κ | (95% CI) | κ | (95% CI) | |
| Optimal image quality | 0.20 | (0.00–0.43) | 0.17 | (−0.07–0.43) | 0.32 | (0.00–0.59) | 0.57 | (0.26–0.83) |
| Optimal SNR | 0.00 | a | −0.07 | a | 0.12 | (−0.19–0.42) | 0.11 | (−0.18–0.42) |
| Trace or no artifacts | 0.41 | (0.07–0.72) | −0.14 | a | 0.60 | (0.26–0.86) | 0.50 | (0.28–0.74) |
| Sharp gray-white matter boundaries | 0.01 | a | 0.02 | (−0.14–0.16) | −0.10 | (−0.30–0.04) | −0.04 | (−0.19–0.07) |
| Sharp lesion boundaries | 0.18 | (0.00–0.53) | 0.00 | a | 0.31 | (−0.09–0.69) | 0.33 | (0.00–0.70) |
Note:—AX indicates axial; SAG, sagittal.
a
The 95% confidence interval was not provided when ratings were too uncommon to calculate reliably with the bootstrap.