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ArticleScientific reports2023

Learning more from the inter-rater reliability of interstitial fibrosis assessment beyond just a statistic.

Peir-In Liang, Wei-Chou Lin, Mei-Chin Wen, Shun-Chen Huang, Pei-Wei Fang, Hao-Wen Chuang, Yi-Jia Lin, Hui-Ping Chien, Huan-Da Chen, Tai-Di Chen

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10 authors at 8 institutions in 1 country.

Peir-In LiangDepartment of Pathology, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
Wei-Chou LinDepartment of Pathology, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.
Mei-Chin WenDepartment of Pathology, China Medical University Hsinchu Hospital, Hsinchu, Taiwan.
Shun-Chen HuangDepartment of Anatomic Pathology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital Kaohsiung Branch, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
Pei-Wei FangDepartment of Pathology, Fu Jen Catholic University Hospital, Fu Jen Catholic University, New Taipei City, Taiwan.
Hao-Wen ChuangDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
Yi-Jia LinDepartment of Pathology, Tri-service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan.
Hui-Ping ChienDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Shin Kong Wu Ho-Su Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.
Huan-Da ChenDepartment of Pathology, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
Tai-Di ChenDepartment of Anatomic Pathology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital Linkou Main Branch, Taoyuan, Taiwan. b8902028@msn.com.
Kaohsiung Medical University Chung-Ho Memorial Hospital · TWChina Medical University Hospital · TWFu Jen Catholic University · TWKaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital · TWKaohsiung Veterans General Hospital · TWLinkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital · TWNational Defense Medical Center · TWNational Taiwan University Hospital · TW

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Abstract

Interstitial fibrosis assessment by renal pathologists lacks good agreement, and we aimed to investigate its hidden properties and infer possible clinical impact. Fifty kidney biopsies were assessed by 9 renal pathologists and evaluated by intraclass correlation coefficients (ICCs) and kappa statistics. Probabilities of pathologists' assessments that would deviate far from true values were derived from quadratic regression and multilayer perceptron nonlinear regression. Likely causes of variation in interstitial fibrosis assessment were investigated. Possible misclassification rates were inferred on reported large cohorts. We found inter-rater reliabilities ranged from poor to good (ICCs 0.48 to 0.90), and pathologists' assessments had the worst agreements when the extent of interstitial fibrosis was moderate. 33.5% of pathologists' assessments were expected to deviate far from the true values. Variation in interstitial fibrosis assessment was found to be correlated with variation in interstitial inflammation assessment (r

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Glomerulonephritis, IGAKidneyFibrosisHumansObserver VariationReproducibility of Results

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PMID37582967
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