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This consists of an intense surveillance program including serial endoscopies, pelvic magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA), and computed tomography (CT) scans to detect regrowth at an early stage. However, residual lesions or regrowths can be challenging to identify endoscopically, due to mucosal changes such as friability and neovascularization. We developed a novel deep learning model to assist in the detection of residual or regrown rectal cancer lesions during proctosigmoidoscopy.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>We trained a convolutional neural network (Wide ResNet-101-2) on a dataset of 1795 annotated frames from proctosigmoidoscopy exams of 97 patients treated at a tertiary referral center. Residual or regrowth was defined by histopathological confirmation. The dataset was split into training and testing cohorts using a 90\/10% patient-level split.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Out of 97 patients, 24 (363 frames) had confirmed residual disease or regrowths, while 73 (1432 frames) presented normal rectal mucosa. The model achieved an overall accuracy of 92.8%, with a sensitivity of 80.0%, specificity of 97.3%, positive predictive value (PPV) of 90.9%, negative predictive value (NPV) of 94.0%, and an area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUROC) of 0.886.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>To the best of our knowledge, this is the first deep learning model specifically developed for the detection of residual disease or regrowth following cCR in W&amp;W patients during endoscopic examination. 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