An Inter-Observer Agreement Study of Autofluorescence Endoscopy in Barrett’s Esophagus Among Expert and Non-Expert Endoscopists
| Autor: | Emmanouil Telakis, Vidyasagar Ramappa, Jayan Mannath, Venkataraman Subramanian, K. Lau, Philip Kaye, M Wireko, Krish Ragunath |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Physiology Inter observer agreement Sensitivity and Specificity Gastroenterology Barrett Esophagus Internal medicine medicine White light Humans Endoscopy Digestive System Prospective Studies Aged Observer Variation medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Optical Imaging Reproducibility of Results Mean age Gold standard (test) Reference Standards medicine.disease Endoscopy Autofluorescence Barrett's esophagus Female business Nuclear medicine Precancerous Conditions Kappa |
| Zdroj: | Digestive Diseases and Sciences. 58:465-470 |
| ISSN: | 1573-2568 0163-2116 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10620-012-2358-2 |
| Popis: | Autofluorescence imaging (AFI), which is a “red flag” technique during Barrett’s surveillance, is associated with significant false positive results. The aim of this study was to assess the inter-observer agreement (IOA) in identifying AFI-positive lesions and to assess the overall accuracy of AFI. Anonymized AFI and high resolution white light (HRE) images were prospectively collected. The AFI images were presented in random order, followed by corresponding AFI + HRE images. Three AFI experts and 3 AFI non-experts scored images after a training presentation. The IOA was calculated using kappa and accuracy was calculated with histology as gold standard. Seventy-four sets of images were prospectively collected from 63 patients (48 males, mean age 69 years). The IOA for number of AF positive lesions was fair when AFI images were presented. This improved to moderate with corresponding AFI and HRE images [experts 0.57 (0.44–0.70), non-experts 0.47 (0.35–0.62)]. The IOA for the site of AF lesion was moderate for experts and fair for non-experts using AF images, which improved to substantial for experts [κ = 0.62 (0.50–0.72)] but remained at fair for non-experts [κ = 0.28 (0.18–0.37)] with AFI + HRE. Among experts, the accuracy of identifying dysplasia was 0.76 (0.7–0.81) using AFI images and 0.85 (0.79–0.89) using AFI + HRE images. The accuracy was 0.69 (0.62–0.74) with AFI images alone and 0.75 (0.70–0.80) using AFI + HRE among non-experts. The IOA for AF positive lesions is fair to moderate using AFI images which improved with addition of HRE. The overall accuracy of identifying dysplasia was modest, and was better when AFI and HRE images were combined. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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