Table 3. Inter- and intra-observer Fleiss’ Kappa for qualitative terminal ductal lobular unit assessment among three observers using 40 and 10 cases, respectively.
Intra-observer* | Inter-observer# | |||||||||
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Observer 1 | Observer 2 | Observer 3 | Observer 1,2 & 3 | Consensus vote of observers vs automated | ||||||
κ | p-value | κ | p-value | κ | p-value | κ | p-value | κ | p-value | |
Predominant lobular type | ||||||||||
by Russo et al. [2] | 0.167 | 0.598 | 0.608 | 0.055 | 0.798 | 0.012 | 0.529 | <0.01 | 0.536 | <0.01 |
Lobular classification according to Baer et al. [9] | 0.048 | 0.880 | 1.000 | <0.01 | 0.798 | 0.012 | 0.370 | <0.01 | 0.538 | <0.01 |
*Intra-observer evaluation was done using 10 out of the 40 cases.
#Inter-observer evaluation was done using 40 cases.