Accurate arm circumference (AC) measurement is required for accurate blood pressure (BP) readings. Standards stipulate measuring arm circumference at the midpoint between the acromion process (AP) and...
Salivary gland tumors (SGT) are a diverse group of neoplasms arising from the major and minor glands. The oral cavity is the most common site for minor SGT (IMSGT), and these lesions frequently pose a...
We conducted a retrospective analysis of 248 IMSGT received between 2010 and 2019. We evaluated the diagnostic challenge of the cases by stratifying according to whether a definitive, favored, or inde...
Of the 248 biopsies, 191 had a definitive diagnosis, 38 favored diagnoses, and 19 were indeterminate. The predominant diagnoses considered for the indeterminate category were pleomorphic adenoma/myoep...
Diagnostic challenges in IMSGT incisional biopsies were infrequent, especially if multiple pathologists were consulted. PA, PAC, AdCC, and adenocarcinoma NOS were the histologic types more commonly po...
Studies in adults have suggested that high-resolution technology increases the diagnostic yield of antroduodenal manometry (ADM). However, there is no study comparing high-resolution with low-resoluti...
Twenty-four anonymized ADM studies were blindly analyzed by 3 experienced pediatric neurogastroenterologists. All studies had been performed using a low-compliance water-perfused system with a 20-chan...
Analysis with high-resolution CLP revealed a substantial inter-observer agreement among the 3 observers regarding the diagnosis (Krippendorff's alpha: 0.832; average pairwise percentage agreement: 88....
Our study demonstrated higher diagnostic accuracy for high-resolution ADM compared to the low-resolution recordings. However, although it is well established for other motility investigations, PTP is ...
Transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) is the gold standard for the detection of valvular vegetations (VV). Differentiating small VV from degenerative changes is challenging and prone to inter-observe...
A total of 349 consecutive TEEs were evaluated. Studies were classified as "definite, possible, or no" IE with valve masses classified further by morphology. Nine faculty echocardiographers scored ran...
Positive blood cultures were present in 81% and 45% had definite IE by the modified Duke criteria. There was moderate reader agreement regarding the presence of a valvular mass for both the AV (Kf = ....
In a large academic center, the inter-observer agreement for the presence of a left sided valvular mass was moderate and agreement regarding the final diagnosis of IE was fair to moderate, with better...
Prior implementations of the channelized Hotelling observer (CHO) model have succeeded in assessing the performance of X-ray angiography systems under a variety of imaging conditions. However, often t...
This work builds up on prior established CHO methods and introduces a new approach to switch from the already established "multiple-sample" CHO implementation to a "single-sample" technique. The propo...
To assess the proposed method, two image data sets were acquired with a clinical X-ray angiography system. The first set consisted of a uniform background in combination with static test objects while...
For the uniform background data set, considering all detectability indices greater or equal than 1, the ratio between the detectability indices of the proposed single-sample approach versus the multip...
A new single-sample variant of the CHO model to assess the performance of X-ray angiography imaging systems is proposed. The new approach is consistent with quantum-limited image quality theory and wi...
The membranous urethral length (MUL), defined as the length between the apex and penile base as measured on preoperative prostate magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), is an important predictor for urinar...
Prostate cancer patients underwent a preoperative MRI and robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP) at one high-volume RARP center. MUL measurement was based on well-defined landmarks on sagittal T2...
The initial inter-observer agreement was ICC 0.63; 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.28-0.81. Radiologist 3 measured the MUL mean 3.9 mm (SD 3.3) longer than the other readers, interpreting the caudal po...
The MUL can be measured reliably with high agreement among radiologists....
• After discussion on the correct anatomical definition, the inter- and intra - observer agreements of membranous urethral length (MUL) measurement on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) were high. • A r...
Airway evaluation is a fundamental component of the preanesthetic examination. Virtual care has increased during the COVID-19 pandemic. We aimed to assess the reliability of a virtual preanesthetic ai...
This prospective observational study compared the inter-rater agreement of an in-person airway evaluation performed by a consultant anesthesiologist with a virtual airway evaluation (VAE) performed by...
One hundred out of 111 participants completed all three evaluations. The in-person anesthesiologist airway evaluations had fair and good levels of agreement of total scores with the VAEs of the anesth...
Virtual airway evaluations performed by anesthesiologists and medical students had fair and good inter-rater agreement, respectively, with in-person anesthesiologist airway evaluations. Further study ...
In the Library-of-Plans (LoP) approach, correct plan selection is essential for delivering radiotherapy treatment accurately. However, poor image quality of the cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) ma...
CBCT images of 12 patients were used to investigate the inter-observer variability of plan selection based on different CBCT image types. Six observers were asked to individually select a plan based o...
The agreement between observers was significantly higher on sCT compared to CBCT. The consensus meeting improved the duration and inter-observer variability. In this manuscript, the guidelines attribu...
The use of sCTs can increase the agreement of plan selection among observers and the gold standard was indicated to be selected more often. It is important that clear guidelines for plan selection are...
Among all the cancers known today, prostate cancer is one of the most commonly diagnosed in men. With modern advances in medicine, its mortality has been considerably reduced. However, it is still a l...
In this work, the inter-observer variability of a local dataset of 80 whole-slide images annotated by a team of 5 pathologists from the same group was analyzed at both area and label level. Four appro...
An inter-observer variability of 0.6946 κ was obtained, with 46% discrepancy in terms of area size of the annotations performed by the pathologists. The best trained models achieved 0.826±0.014κ on th...
The obtained results show that deep learning-based automatic diagnosis systems could help reduce the widely-known inter-observer variability that is present among pathologists and support them in thei...
To investigate inter- and intra-observer agreement in the assessment of cytoplasmic string (CS) by embryologists on day 5/6 human blastocysts using the EmbryoViewer software. This was a prospective st...
