An integrated model incorporating deep learning, hand-crafted radiomics and clinical and US features to diagnose central lymph node metastasis in patients with papillary thyroid cancer

Table 2 Independent risk factors after multiple logistic regression analysis

Ultrasound features	β	Odds ratio (95% CI)	p value
Prediction of CLNM status
Size	0.533	1.704 (1.225–2.370)	0.002
Age	-1.301	0.272 (0.125–0.595)	0.001
Sex	-0.598	0.550 (0.353–0.857)	0.008
Tumour multifocality	0.738	2.092 (1.224–3.577)	0.007
ETE	1.418	4.130 (2.434–7.008)	< 0.001

Abbreviations: CLNM, central lymph node metastasis; US, ultrasound; CI: confidence interval; ETE, extrathyroidal extension

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