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Subsequently, feature selection was performed using the analysis of variance (ANOVA) test followed by least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) regression. Based on the selected features, a Random Forest (RF) classification model was constructed and evaluated separately on an internal and an external validation set.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The YOLO-JIA model demonstrated high precision (0.98) and recall (1.00) in object detection tasks, with a mean average precision at 50\u201395% (mAP50\u201395) for mask (M) reaching 0.86. The RF classification model achieved an area under the curve (AUC) of 0.88 on the internal validation set and 0.81 on the external validation set. Decision curve analysis further confirmed the clinical utility of our proposed system. Finally, the models were integrated and deployed locally.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>This study successfully developed a system for the early diagnosis of JIA hip synovitis based on deep learning and radiomics. 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