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Table 2 Concordance between examiner 1 and examiner 2 concerning the correct clinical decision of whether the patient should undergo a control ultrasound due to a suspicious finding in ABVS (due to BI-RADS® 0,3,4 or 5) or whether the patient should be defined as healthy as there is no suspicious lesion in ABVS (i.e. BI-RADS® 1 or 2)

From: Diagnostic performance and inter-observer concordance in lesion detection with the automated breast volume scanner (ABVS)

  

Examiner 1 (SG)

 
  

BI-RADS®

BI-RADS®

Total

  

ABVS

ABVS

  

1 or 2

0, 3, 4 or 5

  

(negative)

(positive)

Examiner 2 (AF)

BI-RADS®

34a

8

42

ABVS

1 or 2

(negative)

BI-RADS®

25

33a

58

ABVS

0, 3, 4 or 5

(positive)

 

Total

59

41

100

  1. Distribution of cases by rater and by category. The inter-rater reliability coefficient calculates to κ = 0.36 (0.19-0.53).
  2. aconcordance between examiner 1 and examiner 2.