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Preoperative contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CT) images were processed using 3D Slicer for region of interest (ROI) delineation and radiomics feature extraction. The intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) was used to assess interobserver consistency, while the least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) regression method was applied for feature selection. Logistic regression (LR), random forest (RF), support vector machine (SVM), and extreme gradient boosting (XGBoost) were used to construct radiomics models. The RF algorithm was selected to build a joint clinicopathological\u2013radiomics model, and patients with left colon cancer served as the external validation set. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves, calibration curves, and decision curve analysis (DCA) were used to evaluate diagnostic efficiency.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>A total of 107 radiomics features were extracted, with 17 stable features retained after ICC filtering (ICC \u2265 0.75) and LASSO regression with 50% cross-validation. The RF algorithm outperformed other models in the radiomics model, with area under the curve (AUC) values of 0.98 in the training set and 0.96 in the test set. The joint model integrating the RF algorithm and clinicopathological variables (e.g., sex, age, tumor long diameter, histological type, pN, pM, pTNM, and differentiation degree) achieved the highest predictive performance, with AUC values of 0.99 (training set) and 0.97 (test set), which were significantly higher than those of the radiomics model and the clinical model alone. External validation with left colon cancer data also showed an AUC of 0.81, indicating good generalizability. The calibration curves demonstrated satisfactory probability prediction, and the DCA confirmed that the joint model provided greater clinical net benefit across the entire threshold probability range.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The RF-based joint clinicopathological\u2013radiomics model exhibited excellent performance in predicting the dMMR status in right colon cancer, with good generalizability across the entire colon. 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