Table 2.
Cohen’s kappa comparing interreader lesion detection agreement between pairs of readers, intrareader agreement between repeated reads of the same subject, and interscan agreement between the standard and low-count-enhanced scans, stratified by the type of scans and readers.
|
Interreader agreement (N = 120) |
Reader pairs | ||
| 1 and 2 | 1 and 3 | 2 and 3 | |
| Low-Count-Enhanced | 0.55 (0.42–0.67) | 0.66 (0.55–0.77) | 0.72 (0.61-0.83) |
| Standard | 0.65 (0.53–0.76) | 0.71 (0.61–0.81) | 0.75 (0.65-0.85) |
| Overall | 0.60 (0.51–0.68) | 0.69 (0.61–0.76) | 0.73 (0.66-0.81) |
|
Intrareader Agreement (N = 20) |
Reader number | ||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| Low-Count-Enhanced | 0.74 (0.5–0.98) | 0.74 (0.46–1.0) | 0.95 (0.85-1.0) |
| Standard | 1.0 (1.0–1.0) | 0.84 (0.62–1.0) | 0.84 (0.88-1.0) |
| Overall | 0.88 (0.76–0.99) | 0.79 (0.46–1.0) | 0.95 (0.88-1.0) |
| Total Intrareader | 0.88 (0.82–0.95) | ||
|
Interscan Agreement (N = 60) |
Scan-pairs | ||
| Low-count-enhanced and standard | |||
| Reader 1 | 0.84 (0.76–0.91) | ||
| Reader 2 | 0.85 (0.76–0.93) | ||
| Reader 3 | 0.88 (0.81–0.95) | ||
| Overall | 0.85 (0.81–0.90) | ||