Predicting Lymph Node Metastasis in Rectal Cancer: Development and Validation of a Machine Learning Model Using Clinical Data

Published on 23.Sep.2025 in Vol 13 (2025)

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/73765, first published 11.Mar.2025.

; Chuangwei Li^{1, 2, 3}

; Zhen Wang^{1, 2, 3}

; Wanqin Wang^{2, 4}

; Shouhong Wan^{2, 5}

; Bingbing Zou^{1, 2, 3}

Wei Hou ^{1, 2, 3
*} ; Chuangwei Li ^{1, 2, 3
*} , MM ; Zhen Wang ^{1, 2, 3} , MB ; Wanqin Wang ^{2, 4} , MM ; Shouhong Wan ^{2, 5} , PhD ; Bingbing Zou ^{1, 2, 3} , PhD

¹ Department of General Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, China

² Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Hefei Comprehensive National Science Center, Hefei, China

³ Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China

⁴ Department of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China

⁵ School of Computer Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China

*these authors contributed equally

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