The Prostate Imaging Quality Score (PI-QUAL): is inter-reader agreement a factor to consider?
The Prostate Imaging Quality Score (PI-QUAL): is inter-reader agreement a factor to consider?
Nádia Açafrão, Pedro Maganinho, João Amorim
The main purpose of this study is to assess the level of agreement between three raters with different levels of experience.
We identified sixty-four patients with PCa in the same University Hospital in 2019. Therefore, three readers applied PI-QUAL Score independently.
We observed moderate interrater reliability between three readers of different experience assigning the PI-QUAL category to prostate MRI examinations and slight agreement for most qualitative/anatomical item.
This scoring system can be used within commonly accepted levels of agreement, specially if a simplified 3-point scale version is used. However, it is anticipated that the scoring system will need to undergo further refinements.
