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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Magn Reson Imaging. 2018 Dec 23;49(7):e183–e194. doi: 10.1002/jmri.26582

TABLE 3.

Positive Percent Agreement (PPA) and Negative Percent Agreement (NPA) and the Corresponding Confidence Intervals (in Parentheses) Are Provided Along With the Positive and Negative Occurrence Counts for the DESS and DESS+PDFS Methods

Bone Cartilage Meniscus Ligaments Tendons Synovium Overall
DESS Sequence
PPA Occurrences 85 (78–91)
103/121		 94 (89–97)
176/188		 89 (82–93)
115/130		 76 (63–86)
45/59		 91 (71–99)
20/22		 100(99–100)
112/112		 90(89–92)
571/632
NPA Occurrences 99 (98–99)
573/579		 99 (99–99)
858/862		 99 (99–99)
914/920		 99 (99–99)
1507/1516		 99 (98–99)
499/503		 99 (99–99)
235/238		 99 (99–99)
4586/4618
DESS+PDFS Sequences
PPA Occurrences 100(88–100)
28/28		 100(91–100)
39/39		 90(68–99)
18/20		 100 (80–100)
17/17		 100(59–100)
7/7		 100(90–100)
36/36		 9(95–99)*
145/147
NPA Occurrences 100(98–100)
212/212		 100(99–100)
321/321		 99(98–100)
338/340		 100(99–100)**
523/523		 100 (98–100)
173/173		 100(97–100)
84/84		 100(98–100)*
1651/1653

Significantly different comparisons between the DESS and DESS+PDFS methods are represented with * P < 0.001 and ** P = 0.03. All occurrence numbers indicated are pooled across all readers and patients.