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Performance decreased with dose reduction (\n                      <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u2009&lt;\u20090.01), reaching 73.8% detection sensitivity and 0.75 DSC at 5% dose. Statistically significant differences between Augmentation vs. NoAugmentation models were seen for all nodes (\n                      <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u2009&lt;\u20090.001) and small nodes (\n                      <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u2009&lt;\u20090.05) at 10% and 5% doses. On the external LNQ dataset, the Augmentation model attained a DSC of 0.76\u2009\u00b1\u20090.12 and HD of 4.7\u2009\u00b1\u20093.23 (\n                      <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u2009&lt;\u20090.01) for all LNs.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Degraded image quality impacted nodal delineation on reduced-dose CT. 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