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These features were then integrated into seven machine learning algorithms to build predictive models: logistic regression (LR), support vector machine (SVM), gradient boosting machine (GBM), neural network (NN), random forest (RF), extreme gradient boosting (XGB), and <jats:italic>k<\/jats:italic>-nearest neighbors (KNN). The performance of these models was evaluated using the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC), along with accuracy, sensitivity (recall), and specificity.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>A total of 22,114 patients diagnosed with BC were included in this study, with 537 (2.4%) patients developing BM. The identified independent risk factors for BCBM included age, race, tumor histology, tumor grade, T stage, N stage, the presence of brain metastasis, liver metastasis, and lung metastasis, and history of radiotherapy. Among the seven developed machine learning models, the tree-based GBM model exhibited the best performance in the test set, achieving AUC, accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity values of 0.855, 0.813, 0.733, and 0.815, respectively. The GBM model also demonstrated robust performance in the external validation set, achieving an AUC of 0.766 and accuracy of 0.945. 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