How to assess the reliability of cerebral microbleed rating?

Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience

Volumn 5, Issue SEP, 2013, Pages

  Kuijf, Hugo J ^a   van Veluw, Susanne J ^b   Viergever, Max A ^a   Vincken, Koen L ^a   Biessels, Geert Jan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cerebrovascular diseases; Cohen's kappa coefficient; Dice's similarity coefficient; ICC; Inter rater reliability; Microbleeds; MRI imaging

Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; MICROBLEED RATING; NEUROIMAGING; NOTE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY;

EID: 84895782498     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16634365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2013.00057     Document Type: Note

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