Integrating additional factors into the TNM staging for cutaneous melanoma by machine learning

• Charles Q. Yang,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, MD, United States of America

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• Huan Wang,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States of America

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• Zhenqiu Liu,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Public Health Sciences, Penn State Cancer Institute, Hershey, PA, United States of America

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• Matthew T. Hueman,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Surgical Oncology, John P. Murtha Cancer Center, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, MD, United States of America

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• Aadya Bhaskaran,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Quantitative Theory and Methods, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, United States of America

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• Donald E. Henson,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Deceased, was with The Department of Preventive Medicine & Biostatistics, F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, United States of America

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• Li Sheng,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Mathematics, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America

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• Dechang Chen

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: dechang.chen@usuhs.edu

  Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine & Biostatistics, F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5787-3441

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