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The aim was to evaluate whether an artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted system can accurately characterize thyroid nodule US features and assist radiologists in diagnosing thyroid cancer.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The AI-assisted system (MDT-TC) was trained and internally validated on B-mode US images from 7204 lesions in 6884 patients in Southwest Hospital. The model performance was validated using 3 independent external validation cohorts.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Echogenicity (ECH) and shape (SHA) are features of high importance for model recognition, and these features lead to excellent model performance. The model achieved up to 87.56% accuracy in determining ECH attributes and 69.21% in identifying shape categories. The area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) of the internal validation cohort and 3 independent external validation cohorts for MDT-TC were 0.951, 0.837, 0.816, and 0.871, respectively. The sensitivity values were 98.7%, 91.2%, 90.3%, and 85.6%, respectively. The AUC for the accurate diagnosis of radiologists with MDT-TC assistance was significantly higher than that of radiologists without MDT-TC assistance (P\u2009&amp;lt;\u2009.001). In addition, the AUC for the accurate diagnosis of junior doctors with MDT-TC assistance was significantly higher than that for those without\u00a0(P\u2009&amp;lt;\u2009.01).<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>MDT-TC incorporates radiomic features extracted from thyroid lesion US images and can significantly improve the diagnostic performance of radiologists. This result was particularly strong for junior doctors. 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