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Table 2 Inter-rater agreement with respect to parenchymal findings for each coding system (n = 258)

From: Inter-rater agreement in the assessment of abnormal chest X-ray findings for tuberculosis between two Asian countries

Item

Coding system

Inter-rater agreement

  

Kappa with 95% confidence interval

  

JP-JP

JP-VN

   

VN-VN

   

[1]

[2]

[3]

[4]

 

Total number

JVCS

(245)

(246)

(245)

(245)

(244)

(255)

of tested films

CRRS

(245)

(245)

(246)

(246)

(245)

(255)

Cavity

JVCS

0.44 [0.32-0.56]

0.36 [0.25-0.47]

0.47 [0.34-0.64]

0.30 [0.20-0.40]

0.50 [0.38-0.62]

0.52 [0.40-0.64]

 

CRRS primary *

0.60 [0.48-0.72]

0.10 [0.03-0.17]

0.28 [0.18-0.38]

0.06 [-0.02-0.14]

0.36 [0.25-0.47]

0.15 [0.04-0.26]

 

CRRS secondary

-0.02 [-0.14-0.10]

0.04 [0.00-0.08]

0.06 [0.01-0.11]

0.00 [-0.05-0.05]

0.04 [-0.03-0.11]

0.43 [0.32-0.54]

Fibrosis/scar

JVCS

0.30 [0.17-0.43]

0.19 [0.07-0.31]

0.34 [0.22-0.46]

0.18 [0.05-0.31]

0.34 [0.23-0.45]

0.31 [0.20-0.42]

 

CRRS primary

0.31 [0.18-0.44]

0.02 [-0.02-0.06]

0.27 [0.14-0.40]

-0.02 [-0.07-0.03]

0.15 [0.02-0.28]

0.03 [-0.01-0.07]

 

CRRS secondary

0.28 [0.16-0.40]

0.20 [0.10-0.30]

0.11 [0.02-0.20]

0.14 [0.03-0.25]

0.16 [0.06-0.26]

0.22 [0.10-0.34]

Infiltrate

JVCS

0.49 [0.37-0.61]

0.30 [0.20-0.40]

0.27 [0.18-0.36]

0.22 [0.13-0.31]

0.21 [0.13-0.29]

0.57 [0.45-0.69]

 

CRRS primary

0.33 [0.21-0.45]

0.24 [0.15-0.33]

0.31 [0.19-0.43]

0.15 [0.08-0.22]

0.22 [0.12-0.32]

0.41 [0.30-0.52]

 

CRRS secondary

-0.05 [-0.18-0.08]

0.13 [0.03-0.23]

-0.02 [-0.12-0.08]

-0.04 [-0.14-0.06]

-0.02 [-0.12-0.08]

0.02 [-0.03-0.07]

Nodule

JVCS

0.27 [0.14-0.40]

0.11 [0.05-0.17]

0.26 [0.14-0.38]

0.09 [0.03-0.15]

0.31 [0.20-0.42]

0.19 [0.11-0.27]

 

CRRS primary

0.37 [0.25-0.49]

0.13 [0.06-0.20]

0.40 [0.28-0.52]

0.09 [0.03-0.15]

0.24 [0.12-0.36]

0.21 [0.13-0.29]

 

CRRS secondary

0.22 [0.10-0.34]

0.22 [0.11-0.33]

0.14 [0.02-0.26]

0.13 [0.03-0.23]

0.29 [0.16-0.42]

0.22 [0.12-0.32]

  1. * Primary and secondary lesions are described in CRRS
  2. JVCS Japan-Vietnam chest X-ray coding system, CRRS chest radiograph reading and recording system, TB tuberculosis, NA not applicable, JP-JP a comparison between the Japanese raters, JP-VN [1] to [4] comparisons between Japanese-Vietnamese raters, VN-VN a comparison between the Vietnamese raters