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Patients were divided into symptomatic and asymptomatic groups based on the occurrence of cerebrovascular events within two weeks prior to the CTA examination. Five ML models were constructed to identify symptomatic patients: clinical, PVAT radiomics, plaque radiomics, PVAT and plaque radiomics, and combined model. The most robust model was selected for Shapley Additive Explanations (SHAP) analysis to visualize the prediction process.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      The study cohort consisted of 229 patients (127 symptomatic; 102 asymptomatic). The Random Forest models demonstrated the best performance in detecting symptomatic patients. In the test cohort, the area under the curve (AUC) of the combined model (0.86; 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.74\u20130.95) was significantly higher than that of the clinical model (AUC: 0.67, 95% CI: 0.50\u20130.81;\n                      <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u2009=\u20090.03), but similar to that of the PVAT and plaque radiomics model (AUC: 0.82, 95% CI: 0.70\u20130.93;\n                      <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u2009=\u20090.65). 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