Evaluation of a modified venous excess ultrasound (VExUS) protocol for estimation of venous congestion: a cohort study by Katharine C. Martin, Edward A. Gill, Ivor J. Douglas, August A. Longino

“…Agreement between tVExUS and mVExUS scores was near-perfect (Cohen's Kappa = 0.85). Conclusion mVExUS may be as effective as tVExUS in identifying elevated RAP. …”
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Carotid Artery Stenosis: Comparison of 3D Time-of-Flight MR Angiography and Contrast-Enhanced MR Angiography at 3T by Ivan Platzek, Dominik Sieron, Philipp Wiggermann, Michael Laniado

“…Stenosis grades determined by TOF and CEMRA were compared using Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient and the Wilcoxon test. Cohen’s Kappa was used to evaluate interrater reliability. …”
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Rethinking Assessment Concepts in Dental Education by Mohamed El-Kishawi, Khaled Khalaf, Dana Al-Najjar, Zahra Seraj, Sausan Al Kawas

“…The initial search generated 5371 articles and 24 articles were selected for review and data extraction. Cohen’s kappa coefficient was used to measure interrater agreement and a score of 94.7% was obtained. …”
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Investigating BLS instructors’ ability to evaluate CPR performance: focus on compression depth, rate, and recoil by Shih-Jhan Lin, Chih-Jan Chang, Shao-Chung Chu, Ying-Hsin Chang, Ming-Yuan Hong, Po-Chang Huang, Chia-Lung Kao, Chih-Hsien Chi

“…Results In this study, CPR performance was analyzed using QCPR devices and BLS instructors across metrics like speed, depth, and recoil. Employing the Cohen kappa statistic revealed moderate to low interrater reliability, the kappa value is 0.65 (95% C.I. 0.65–0.65) for depth, 0.56 (95% C.I. 0.33–0.79) for speed, and 0.50 (95% C.I.0.28–0.71) for recoil. …”
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AI-Assisted Compressed Sensing Enables Faster Brain MRI for the Elderly: Image Quality and Diagnostic Equivalence with Conventional Imaging by Gu W, Yang C, Wang Y, Hu W, Wu D, Cai S, Hong G, Hu P, Zhang Q, Dai Y

“…The interchangeability of the two protocols was determined by calculating the 95% confidence interval (CI) for the individual equivalence index. Additionally, Cohen’s weighted kappa statistic was used to assess inter-protocol intra-observer agreement.Results: The ACS images demonstrated superior quality across all qualitative features compared to the conventional ones. …”
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Biophilic Quality Matrix: A tool to evaluate the biophilic quality of a building during early design stage by Niranjika Wijesooriya, Arianna Brambilla, Lina Markauskaite

“…The statistical analysis revealed that the Cohen's kappa was .804 for Case 1 and .823 for Case 2, both indicating a strong agreement level by the tutors. …”
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Respiratory disease detection in lung auscultation with convolutional neural networks and CVAE augmentation by D.V. Panaskin, S.H. Stirenko, D.S. Babko

“…Qualitative evaluation of the model was performed using sensitivity, specificity, F1-score and Cohen’s kappa. A score of 98.45% F1-score was achieved for the 5-class classification problem which can contribute to the development of ways to synthesize and augment sensitive medical data. …”
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Detection of Intracranial Hemorrhage from Computed Tomography Images: Diagnostic Role and Efficacy of ChatGPT-4o by Mustafa Koyun, Zeycan Kubra Cevval, Bahadir Reis, Bunyamin Ece

“…In the second evaluation, diagnostic accuracy improved to 73.3%, with a sensitivity of 86.7% and a specificity of 60%. The Cohen’s Kappa coefficient for intra-observer agreement in ICH detection indicated moderate agreement (κ = 0.469). …”
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Heterogeneidade na avaliação de pais e professores para sintomas de TDAH no SNAP-IV // Heterogeneity in Parents and Teachers’ Assessment for ADHD Symptoms on SNAP-IV by Eduardo de Souza Hashimoto, Sofia Lira Chiodi, Patrícia Silva Lúcio

“…Para analisar a concordância da avaliação foram utilizados coeficientes de correlação de Pearson, teste de qui-quadrado e coeficiente kappa de Cohen. A sensibilidade e especificidade foram analisadas por meio de curva ROC. …”
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Efficiency of Automated Viral RNA Purification for Pediatric Studies of Dengue and Zika in Hyperendemic Areas by Sandra L. Delgado, Piedad M. Perilla, Doris M. Salgado, María Clemencia Rojas, Carlos F. Narváez

“…The cycle thresholds of the TaqMan Triplex® commercial kit and the in-house assay for the detection of plasma ZIKV RNA isolated with the standard protocol showed a strong association (r = 0.93, P<0.0001) and a Cohen Kappa index of 0.98 when all 249 samples were analyzed. …”
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Comparison of Preoperative Assessment of Patient’s Metabolic Equivalents (METs) Estimated from History versus Measured by Exercise Cardiac Stress Testing by Adam S. Weinstein, Martin I. Sigurdsson, Angela M. Bader

“…The METs of the patient estimated by history and the METs quantified by the exercise cardiac stress test were compared using a Bland–Altman plot and Cohen’s kappa. Results. Exercise cardiac stress test quantified METs were on average 3.3 METS higher than the METs estimated by the preoperative evaluation history. …”
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Correlation of disease activity score using erythrocyte sedimentation rate and C-reactive protein with clinical disease activity index in rheumatoid arthritis patients by Viraj Panchal, Puja Srivastava, Dhaiwat Shukla, Devang Rana, Supriya Malhotra, Sapan Pandya

“…To assess agreement between scores Cohen's kappa value was also evaluated. P value obtained <0.05 was considered significant. …”
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Renal Dysfunction, Metabolic Syndrome and Cardiovascular Disease Mortality by David Martins, Chizobam Ani, Deyu Pan, Omolola Ogunyemi, Keith Norris

“…A model with early CKD and MetS has a higher predictive accuracy (72.0% versus 67.6%), area under the ROC (0.74 versus 0.66), and Cohen's kappa (0.38 versus 0.21) than that with MetS alone. …”
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The Effectiveness of Dipstick for the Detection of Urinary Tract Infection by Isaac Dadzie, Elvis Quansah, Mavis Puopelle Dakorah, Victoria Abiade, Ebenezer Takyi-Amuah, Richmond Adusei

“…Combined “nitrite-positive or leucocyte-positive” result was relatively the best indicator for accurate dipstick diagnosis, with AUC = 0.7242. Cohen’s kappa values between dipstick diagnosis and quantitative culture were <0.6. …”
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The Relation Between the Metopic Suture Persistence and Frontal Sinus Volume and Olfactory Fossa Depth: A Reliability Study with Semiautomatic Volume Measurement by Başak Atalay, Mehmet Bilgin Eser

“…Interobserver agreement was evaluated with the intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) and Cohen’s kappa coefficient (κ). Results: The prevalence of PMS was found to be 4.99% [95% confidence interval (CI): 4.03-6.17]. …”
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Self-Movement Screening using the Symmio Application is Reliable and Valid for Identifying Musculoskeletal Risk Factors by Kyle Matsel, Jonathan Kirsch, Tessa Netelbeek, Rolando Rodriguez, Ervin Velic, Kate Schwartzkopf-Phifer

“… # Results The mean Cohen's kappa coefficient was 0.68 (95% CI, 0.47-0.87) and the absolute agreement was 89% between self-assessment of subjects and the observation of a trained healthcare provider. …”
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Cardiovascular Risk Assessment: A Comparison of the Framingham, PROCAM, and DAD Equations in HIV-Infected Persons by Max Weyler Nery, Celina Maria Turchi Martelli, Erika Aparecida Silveira, Clarissa Alencar de Sousa, Marianne de Oliveira Falco, Aline de Cássia Oliveira de Castro, Jorge Tannus Esper, Luis Carlos Silva e Souza, Marília Dalva Turchi

“…The agreement between the CVD risk equations was assessed using Cohen's kappa coefficient. The participants' mean age was 36.8 years (SD = 10.3), 76.9% were men, and 66.3% were on antiretroviral therapy. 47.8% of the participants had abdominal obesity, 23.1% were current smokers, 20.0% had hypertension, and 2.0% had diabetes. …”
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PD-L1 Immunohistochemistry Comparability and Their Correlation with Clinical Characteristics in NSCLC by Chiao-En Wu, Ching-Fu Chang, Liao Kou-Sheng, Ju Chiang, Shih-Wei Lee, Yu-Chi Chiu

“…The above findings were confirmed by Cohen’s kappa. In addition, we found that PD-L1 expression was significantly associated with advanced N stage but not with T and M stages. …”
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Initial use of supplementary oxygen for trauma patients: a systematic review by Trine Grodum Eskesen, Josefine Stokholm Baekgaard, Jacob Steinmetz, Lars S Rasmussen

“…Two independent reviewers screened and identified studies and extracted data from included studies.Results 6142 citations were screened with an inter-rater reliability (Cohen’s kappa) of 0.88. One interventional trial of intubated trauma patients was included. 68 trauma patients were randomised to receive an FiO2 of 0.80 (intervention group) or 0.50 (control group) during mechanical ventilation (first 6 hours). …”
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Near-infrared light reflection for the early detection of proximal caries in posterior teeth: an in vivo study by Liheng Shen, Xiqun Yang, Chengzhi Dong, Xiaodong Tang, Simin Zheng, Tingting Wang, Linhong Wang, Fan Yang, Yuchen Zheng

“…Results For posterior teeth, the accuracy of near-infrared light reflection was 0.78, with a sensitivity of 0.44 and a specificity of 0.83. Cohen’s kappa showed poor consistency between the two diagnostic methods, near-infrared light reflection and bitewing radiography. …”
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