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Chest Computed Tomography-Based Scoring of Thoracic Sarcoidosis: Inter-rater Reliability of CT Abnormalities by D. A. Van den Heuvel; P. A. de Jong; P. Zanen; H. W. van Es; J. P. van Heesewijk; M. Spee; J. C. Grutters is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
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## Purpose: To determine inter-rater reliability of sarcoidosis-related computed tomography (ct) findings that can be used for scoring of thoracic sarcoidosis. ## Materials and methods: Ct images of 51 patients with sarcoidosis were scored by five chest radiologists for various abnormal ct findings (22 in total) encountered in thoracic sarcoidosis. using intra-class correlation coefficient (icc) analysis, inter-rater reliability was analysed and reported according to the guidelines for reporting reliability and agreement studies (grras) criteria. a pre-specified sub-analysis was performed to investigate the effect of training. scoring was trained in a distinct set of 15 scans in which all abnormal ct findings were represented. ## Results: Median age of the 51 patients (36 men, 70%) was 43 years (range 26 - 64 years). all radiographic stages were present in this group. icc ranged from 0.91 for honeycombing to 0.11 for nodular margin (sharp versus ill-defined). the icc was above 0.60 in 13 of the 22 abnormal findings. sub-analysis for the best-trained observers demonstrated an icc improvement for all abnormal findings and values above 0.60 for 16 of the 22 abnormalities. ## Conclusio
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- Author
- D. A. Van den Heuvel; P. A. de Jong; P. Zanen; H. W. van Es; J. P. van Heesewijk; M. Spee; J. C. Grutters
- Publisher
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)