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Tumor and normal tissues showed significantly different immune cell compositions in 183 of 352 comparisons, with macrophage M0 levels consistently elevated in most tumors except lung adenocarcinoma. ResNet models using immune cell data achieved strong performance in distinguishing tumor versus normal samples (average F1 score\u00a0=\u00a00.64 when combined with clinical features). Four immune features were significantly associated with disease\u2010specific survival across three cancer types: macrophage M0 and macrophage M2 in bladder urothelial carcinoma, macrophage M0 in kidney renal clear cell carcinoma, and the Treg\/CD8\n                    <jats:sup>+<\/jats:sup>\n                    T cell ratio in skin cutaneous melanoma. Although immune cell diversity varied across cancers, it was not broadly predictive of prognosis, highlighting the cancer type\u2010specific nature of immune remodeling. Our results demonstrated cancer heterogeneity through the analysis of immune cell composition and diversity using deep learning models and prognostic analysis. 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