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Model performance was assessed in terms of discrimination, calibration, and clinical utility.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>Factors independently predicting clinical pregnancy included inner cell mass (ICM) grade, trophectoderm (TE) grade, Day 3 (D3) fragmentation, endometrium thickness, and male age at oocyte pick-up (OPU). The AUC values for the training, testing, and validation sets were 0.66, 0.65, and 0.60, respectively, indicating acceptable performance. 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