Evaluation of Cervical Lymph Node Metastasis in Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma Using Clinical-Ultrasound Radiomic Machine Learning-Based Model.

We aim to develop a clinical-ultrasound radiomic (USR) model based on USR features and clinical factors for the evaluation of cervical lymph node metastasis (CLNM) in patients with papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC). This retrospective study used routine clinical and US data from 205 PTC patients. According to the pathology results, the enrolled patients were divided into a non-CLNM group and a CLNM group.