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Although determining regions of interest (<jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">ROI<\/jats:styled-content>s) is an essential process for interpreting thermographic images, there are no validated and standardized guidelines to determine <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">ROI<\/jats:styled-content>s. Therefore, <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">ROI<\/jats:styled-content>s may be determined differently by each observer even for the same <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">IRT<\/jats:styled-content> images, which can result in an important issue for <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">IRT<\/jats:styled-content> reliability. The purpose of this study was to investigate the interexaminer reliability of <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">IRT<\/jats:styled-content> in patients with <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">CRPS<\/jats:styled-content>.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>Infrared thermographic images of 28 patients diagnosed with <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">CRPS<\/jats:styled-content> were reviewed by three independent examiners. The shapes, sizes, and the detailed locations of the <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">ROI<\/jats:styled-content>s were determined by the investigator's own opinion based on patient history and symptoms. After maximal skin temperature of the <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">ROI<\/jats:styled-content> was obtained for each patient, the degree of agreement among the three examiners limbs was assessed.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>The intraclass correlation coefficient among the three independent raters was 0.865 (95% confidence interval, 0.748\u20130.933), indicating a high degree of reliability (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\u00a0&lt;\u00a00.001).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title><jats:p>The reliability of <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">IRT<\/jats:styled-content> for assessing skin temperature abnormalities in <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">CRPS<\/jats:styled-content> was high when the <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">ROI<\/jats:styled-content>s were determined based on patient history and symptoms.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1111\/srt.12032","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2013,1,20]],"date-time":"2013-01-20T07:42:37Z","timestamp":1358667757000},"page":"189-193","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":25,"title":["Interexaminer reliability of infrared thermography for the diagnosis of complex regional pain syndrome"],"prefix":"10.1111","volume":"19","author":[{"given":"Eunjoo","family":"Choi","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine Seoul National University Bundang Hospital Seongnam Korea"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Pyung\u2010Bok","family":"Lee","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine Seoul National University Bundang Hospital Seongnam Korea"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Francis Sahngun","family":"Nahm","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine Seoul National University Bundang Hospital Seongnam Korea"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"311","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2013,1,20]]},"reference":[{"key":"e_1_2_9_2_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1093\/bja\/87.1.99"},{"key":"e_1_2_9_3_1","first-page":"203","article-title":"The value of interdisciplinary pain management in complex regional pain syndrome type I: a prospective outcome study","volume":"7","author":"Singh G","year":"2004","journal-title":"Pain Physician"},{"key":"e_1_2_9_4_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1097\/00002508-199612000-00011"},{"key":"e_1_2_9_5_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1097\/00002508-199703000-00008"},{"key":"e_1_2_9_6_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1093\/brain\/124.3.587"},{"key":"e_1_2_9_7_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.3344\/kjp.2009.22.2.146"},{"key":"e_1_2_9_8_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1097\/AJP.0b013e31805c9e66"},{"key":"e_1_2_9_9_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1109\/6144.774742"},{"key":"e_1_2_9_10_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/0304-3959(95)00110-E"},{"key":"e_1_2_9_11_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1111\/j.1526-4637.2006.00169.x"},{"key":"e_1_2_9_12_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1002\/(SICI)1097-0258(19980115)17:1<101::AID-SIM727>3.0.CO;2-E"},{"key":"e_1_2_9_13_1","first-page":"201","article-title":"Research methodology and applied statistics. 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