Agreement in breast lesion assessment and final BI-RADS classification between radial and meander-like breast ultrasound

Table 5 Literature comparison of BI-RADS agreement

		Final BI-RADS assessment	Shape	Orientation	Margin	Echo pattern	Posterior acoustic features
Meander-like ultrasound versus radial ultrasound in real time
This study	2020	0.76	0.47	0.35	0.68	0.40	0.47
Meander-like ultrasound versus meander-like ultrasound in real time
Yoon [26]	2011	0.37
Berg [27]	2006	0.52	0.62	0.72	0.67	0.25	0.38
Berg ^# [34]	2006		0.14			0.61	0.45
Meander-like ultrasound versus meander-like ultrasound by retrospective review of static images
Cho [25]	2019	0.49/0.52‡/0.63†
Choi [12]	2018	0.70	0.67	0.63	0.55	0.57	0.60
Lee ҂ [24]	2016	0.04–0.59	0.17–0.60	0.25–0.77	0.05–0.52	0.05–0.55	0.33–0.64
Schwab [13]	2016	0.585–0.738
Park [14]	2015	0.478	0.538	0.429	0.257	0.430	0.438
Elverici [15]	2013	0.35	0.45	0.66	0.33	0.41	0.54
Youk [16]	2013	0.38	0.61	0.62	0.39	0.54	0.57
Berg [17]	2012	0.53/0.59*	0.59	0.46	0.51	0.41	0.64
Cosgrove [18]	2012	0.59	0.58	0.53	0.38
Schaefer [19]	2011	0.634
Abdullah [20]	2009	0.3	0.64	0.70	0.36	0.58	0.47
Lee [21]	2008	0.53 / 0.62**	0,49	0.56	0.33	0.37	0.49
Park [22]	2007	0.49	0.42	0.61	0.32	0.36	0.53
Lazarus [23]	2006	0.28	0.66	0.61	0.40	0.29	0.40
Meander-like ultrasound versus ABUS
Yun [35]	2019	0.61
Vourtsis [36]	2018	0.99
Barr [37]	2017	0.49

^#Phantom-Study
Improved final assessment after first‡, and second † quality workshop
҂Including κ values of faculty members, senior and junior residents
^*Improved final assessment after feedback
^**κ = 0.53 final BI-RADS assessment 3, 4a, 4b, 4c, 5 / κ = 0.62 final BI-RADS assessment 3, 4, 5

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