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Table 3 Agreement between specialist’s and MTB’s image interpretations

From: Image analysis in posttreatment non-small cell lung cancer surveillance: specialists’ interpretations reviewed by the thoracic multidisciplinary tumor board

Outcomea

Total number of surveillance studies

n = 266

PET-CT

n = 129

CE-CT

n = 137

Agreement

232 (87.2)

114 (88.4)

118 (86.1)

 positive

39 (14.7)

22 (17.1)

17 (12.4)

 negative

193 (72.6)

92 (71.3)

101 (73.7)

Disagreement

34 (12.8)

15 (11.6)

19 (13.9)

 major

20 (7.5)

9 (6.9)

11 (8.0)

  diagnostic

17 (6.4)

9 (6.9)

8 (5.8)

  therapeutic

4 (1.5)

3 (2.3)

1 (0.7)

  benign to malignant

7 (2.6)

3 (2.3)

4 (2.9)

  malignant to benign

10 (3.7)

5 (3.8)

5 (3.6)

 minor

14 (5.3)

6 (4.6)

8 (5.8)

  1. MTB multidisciplinary tumor board, PET-CT integrated F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography-computed tomography, CE-CT contrast-enhanced computed tomography
  2. aDefinitions: see Table 1, data presented as number (%). No statistically significant differences between PET-CT and CE-CT were observed