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The patient cohort was randomly split to create a training dataset (90%) and a testing dataset (10%). Following image dataset augmentation, Inception V3 and Resnet50 models were used to differentiate between renal tumors subtypes, including angiomyolipoma (AML), oncocytoma, clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC), chromophobe renal cell carcinoma (chRCC), and papillary renal cell carcinoma (pRCC). 5-fold cross validation was then used to evaluate the models in terms of classification performance.<\/jats:p>\n          <\/jats:sec>\n          <jats:sec>\n            <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n            <jats:p>The study cohort comprised 554 patients, including those with angiomyolipoma (<jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u200967), oncocytoma (<jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u200934), clear cell renal cell carcinoma (<jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u2009246), chromophobe renal cell carcinoma (<jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u2009124), and papillary renal cell carcinoma (<jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u200983). Dataset augmentation of the training dataset included this to 4238 CT images for analysis. The accuracy of the models was as follows: Inception V3 (0.830) and Resnet 50 (0.849).<\/jats:p>\n          <\/jats:sec>\n          <jats:sec>\n            <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n            <jats:p>This study demonstrated the efficacy of using deep learning models for the classification of renal tumor subtypes from contrast-enhanced CT images. 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