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. 2022 Mar 31;12(4):872. doi: 10.3390/diagnostics12040872

Table 3.

Summary of agreement of inter-operator variance using Cohen’s weighted kappa (k) statistics.

Operator 10% PET Image 20% PET Image 50% PET Image
d k d k d k
Mean (95% CI) Mean (95% CI) Mean (95% CI)
1 vs. 2 Lung −0.28 −0.42 −0.14 0.96 −0.47 −0.64 −0.30 0.94
−0.40
−0.57 −0.23 0.94
Liver −0.18 −0.31 −0.05 0.97 −0.06 −0.22 0.11 0.95 0.05 −0.11 0.20 0.96
Bowel −0.30 −0.43 −0.17 0.97 −0.85 −0.99 −0.71 0.92
−0.79
−0.97 −0.61 0.91
1 vs. 3 Lung 0.18 0.04 0.31 0.97 −0.07 −0.26 0.11 0.94
−0.32
−0.50 −0.15 0.94
Liver 0.20 0.08 0.32 0.97 0.53 0.36 0.69 0.94 0.40 0.22 0.57 0.94
Bowel −0.04 −0.14 0.06 0.98 −0.29 −0.47 −0.10 0.94
−0.68
−0.91 −0.44 0.88
2 vs. 3 Lung 0.45 0.32 0.59 0.96 0.40 0.23 0.57 0.94 0.07 −0.10 0.25 0.95
Liver 0.38 0.26 0.50 0.96 0.58 0.41 0.76 0.93 0.35 0.19 0.51 0.95
Bowel 0.26 0.14 0.38 0.97 0.56 0.38 0.75 0.92 0.11 −0.10 0.32 0.92
Operator SR-PET Image
(Proposed Method)
100% PET Image
d k d k
Mean (95% CI) Mean (95% CI)
1 vs. 2 Lung −1.06 −1.22 −0.91 0.86 −0.40 −0.56 −0.24 0.92
Liver −0.74 −0.89 −0.59 0.93 −0.12 −0.26 0.01 0.97
Bowel −1.09 −1.27 −0.92 0.87 −0.73 −0.89 −0.57 0.92
1 vs. 3 Lung −0.12 −0.32 0.08 0.93 −0.18 −0.39 0.04 0.92
Liver 0.36 0.17 0.56 0.93 0.11 −0.06 0.28 0.95
Bowel −0.66 −0.89 −0.42 0.88 −0.58 −0.79 −0.38 0.91
2 vs. 3 Lung 0.94 0.76 1.13 0.89 0.22 0.03 0.41 0.94
Liver 1.10 0.95 1.26 0.88 0.23 0.07 0.40 0.95
Bowel 0.44 0.25 0.62 0.93 0.15 −0.06 0.35 0.93

d: Difference of MOS between operators, PET: Positron emission tomography, SR-PET: Super-resolved PET, MOS: Mean opinion score.