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To construct and validate an interpretable machine learning model integrating contrast-enhanced venous phase CT radiomics and clinical features for preoperative prediction of central lymph node metastasis (CLNM) of papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC).
A case-control study was conducted on 243 histologically confirmed PTC patients. Among them, 196 patients from the First Affiliated Hospital of Army Medical University were randomly allocated into a training set (n=137) and an internal validation set (n=59) at a 7:3 ratio, while the left 47 patients from No. 958 Hospital of PLA Army were assigned into an external validation set. All participants completed standardized preoperative contrast-enhanced neck CT scanning. Quantitative radiomic features were systematically extracted from venous phase CT images through an open-source big data AI platform. Six machine learning classifiers, eXtreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost), Support Vector Machine (SVM), Random Forest (RF), Logistic Regression (LR), k-Nearest Neighbors (KNN), and Decision Tree (DT) were implemented to construct clinical-radiomics integration models. The predictive performance was quantitatively assessed through receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis, with area under the curve (AUC) values calculated for training, internal validation, and external validation sets. Model interpretability was achieved using Shapley additive explanations (SHAP) framework, with particular focus on elucidating feature contributions in the best-performing model.
The XGBoost model had an AUC value of 0.936 (95%CI: 0.895~0.976), 0.832 (95%CI: 0.724~0.941), and 0.772 (95%CI: 0.632~0.912) in training, internal and external validation sets, respectively. SHAP analysis revealed age as the most influential clinical predictor, with younger patients showing higher CLNM risk (OR=0.968, P=0.042).
Our machine learning-based clinic-radiomic prediction model demonstrates satisfactory performance in predicting CLNM of PTC, providing valuable references for clinical decision-making.
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| 鹅膏菌科Amanitaceae | 2 | 11 | 5.26 | 鹅膏菌属 Amanita | 10 | 4.78 |
| 小菇科 Mycenaceae | 2 | 12 | 5.74 | 丝盖伞属 Inocybe | 5 | 2.39 |
| 多孔菌科 Polyporaceae | 8 | 14 | 6.70 | 蜡蘑属 Laccaria | 5 | 2.39 |
| 红菇科 Russulaceae | 3 | 23 | 11.00 | 小皮伞属 Marasmius | 6 | 2.87 |
| 小菇属 Mycena | 11 | 5.26 | ||||
| 光柄菇属 Pluteus | 5 | 2.39 | ||||
| 红菇属 Russula | 17 | 8.13 | ||||
| 栓菌属 Trametes | 5 | 2.39 |
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