SEP 4, 2026 · JOURNAL ARTICLE
Predicting unfavorable response to initial radioactive iodine therapy in differentiated thyroid cancer: an explainable machine learning and survival analysis approach
Frontiers in Endocrinology
Single-center retrospective cohort with internal validation only; machine-learning models show promising discrimination but lack external validation and prospective confirmation required to establish clinical utility.
Reported
Unfavorable response prevalence113/550 (20.5%)
ANN AUC (testing cohort)0.932
ANN AUC 95% CI0.888–0.967