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Interval-aware temporal imaging models predict subsolid pulmonary nodule growth and future morphology from baseline CT, achieving AUC 0.772 and Dice 0.706 across variable surveillance intervals.
- Why it matters: Fixed follow-up intervals limit risk stratification for subsolid pulmonary nodules, so accounting for heterogeneous surveillance timing is needed for more personalized prediction.
- What they did: In a retrospective single-center cohort of 426 patients with 2,543 clinician-reviewed SSNs, 24,946 longitudinal scan pairings trained a discriminative deep model for interval growth and a temporally conditioned generative model for morphology.
- The result: On the test cohort, growth prediction reached AUC 0.772 (95% CI 0.704–0.818) with sensitivity 80.2% and specificity 58.7%, while morphology prediction yielded Dice 0.706 ± 0.186, with performance declining as follow-up duration increased.
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