Predicting the axillary lymph node tumor burden in breast cancer patients using ultrasonic radiomics nomogram model

Pan Tang; Qi Zhang; Ling-cui Meng; Miao Chen; Sai-Feng He; Jian-Xing Zhang

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0333172

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Predicting the axillary lymph node tumor burden in breast cancer patients using ultrasonic radiomics nomogram model

Pan Tang ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Pan Tang, Qi Zhang, Jian-Xing Zhang

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Ultrasound, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4036-9358

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Qi Zhang ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Pan Tang, Qi Zhang, Jian-Xing Zhang

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Ultrasound, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
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Ling-cui Meng ,

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Validation, Writing – review & editing

¶‡ LCM, MC, and SFH also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Ultrasound, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
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Miao Chen ,

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

¶‡ LCM, MC, and SFH also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Ultrasound, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
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Sai-Feng He ,

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Software, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: venant@126.com (JXZ); 31304730@qq.com (SFH)

¶‡ LCM, MC, and SFH also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Ultrasound, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
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Jian-Xing Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Pan Tang, Qi Zhang, Jian-Xing Zhang

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: venant@126.com (JXZ); 31304730@qq.com (SFH)

Affiliation Department of Ultrasound, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
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Predicting the axillary lymph node tumor burden in breast cancer patients using ultrasonic radiomics nomogram model

Pan Tang,
Qi Zhang,
Ling-cui Meng,
Miao Chen,
Sai-Feng He,
Jian-Xing Zhang

Published: October 7, 2025
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0333172

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