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Then, the area ratio of the tumor region to the uterine region (TUR) in the segmentation map is calculated. Finally, the receiver operating characteristic curves (ROCs) are plotted by the TUR and the results of the patient\u2019s pathological diagnosis in the test set to find the optimal staging thresholds for stage IA and stage IB. In the test sets, the trained semantic segmentation model yields the average Dice similarity coefficients of uterus and tumor on axial T2WI, axial DWI, and sagittal T2WI were 0.958 and 0.917, 0.956 and 0.941, 0.972 and 0.910 respectively. With pathological diagnostic results as the gold standard, the classification model on axial T2WI, axial DWI, and sagittal T2WI yielded an area under the curve (AUC) of 0.86, 0.85 and 0.94, respectively. 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