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To determine whether local recurrence or distant metastasis (LRDM) will occur in patients with locally advanced cervical cancer (LACC) after chemoradiotherapy, this study aims to develop and validate a model using clinical and radiomic parameters.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>A total of 118 patients with LACC who were treated with radiotherapy combined with chemotherapy were included. They were divided into a training set (n=83) and a validation set (n=35) at an 7:3 ratio. All patients' diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) images were uploaded to the ITK-SNAP software. Regions of interest (ROIs) were manually delineated, and a radiomic model was constructed using radiomic features by the LightGBM algorithm. A comprehensive model was constructed by integrating clinical and radiomic features and was visualized as a nomogram. The area under the curve (AUC) values were used to evaluate their predictive performance, and Decision curve analysis (DCA) was employed to assess the clinical utility of the predictive models. The calibration curves were used to assess the agreement between predicted and observed outcomes for the LRDM in both cohorts.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>Seven variables were finally chosen for modeling using the least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) regression analysis. The AUC values for the training and test sets of the DWI radiomic model were 0.789 and 0.785, respectively. AUC values for the training and test sets were 0.897 and 0.889, respectively, for the combined model LGBM-nomogram that used DWI and clinical characteristics. 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