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- Title
Interobserver agreement regarding the Fleischner Society diagnostic criteria for usual interstitial pneumonia patterns on computed tomography.
- Authors
Sander Westphalen, Stephanie; Soares Torres, Felipe; Samuel Tonetto, Mateus; Fischman Zampieri, Juliana; Brondani Torri, Giovanni; Severo Garcia, Tiago
- Abstract
Objective: To assess interobserver agreement among radiologists regarding the current Fleischner Society diagnostic criteria for usual interstitial pneumonia (UIP) patterns on computed tomography (CT). Materials and Methods: Using the Fleischner Society criteria for UIP CT patterns, five raters, working independently, categorized the high-resolution CT (HRCT) scans of 44 patients with interstitial lung disease who underwent lung biopsy. The raters also evaluated the presence, extent, and distribution of the most relevant imaging findings, as well as indicating their level of confidence in the most likely diagnosis and in up to three diagnostic hypotheses. Results: There was moderate to substantial interobserver agreement regarding the UIP patterns on HRCT--kappa statistic (κ) = 0.59-0.61. Interobserver agreement for the binary scores was substantial (κ = 0.77-0.79), whereas that for the presence of honeycombing was almost perfect (κ = 0.81-0.96). There was agreement regarding at least one of the three diagnostic hypotheses in only 36.4% of the cases. For the level of confidence in the most likely diagnosis, there was only slight to fair agreement (κ = 0.19-0.21). Conclusion: Interobserver agreement regarding the current Fleischner Society CT criteria for UIP was moderate to substantial among raters with varying levels of experience. There was only slight to fair agreement regarding the diagnostic hypotheses and for the level of confidence in the most likely diagnosis.
- Subjects
IDIOPATHIC pulmonary fibrosis; COMPUTED tomography; INTERSTITIAL lung diseases; DIAGNOSTIC imaging; LUNGS; LUNG diseases
- Publication
Radiologia Brasileira, 2022, Vol 55, Issue 2, p71
- ISSN
0100-3984
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1590/0100-3984.2021.0033