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Radiomic features were extracted from whole tumors and habitat subregions, and radiomics and habitat signatures were integrated with clinicopathologic variables to construct a nomogram for preoperative prediction of apCR. Model performance was evaluated using receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis, calibration assessment, and decision curve analysis (DCA).<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>A total of 336 women were included. In the training cohort, the radiomics, habitat, and nomogram models achieved AUCs of 0.723, 0.765, and 0.845, respectively. The nomogram consistently demonstrated the highest discriminative performance in the internal validation and independent external test cohorts, with AUCs of 0.755 and 0.754. 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