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The study was conducted under the hypothesis that MRI-based radiomics models can predict D-TGCT with diagnostic performance significantly greater than chance level, as measured by the area under the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve (AUC) (null hypothesis: AUC \u2264 0.5; alternative hypothesis: AUC &gt; 0.5). Materials and Methods: This retrospective study included 84 patients with histologically confirmed TGCT (54 L-TGCT, 30 D-TGCT) who underwent preoperative MRI between January 2005 and December 2024. Tumor segmentation was manually performed on T2-weighted (T2WI) and contrast-enhanced T1-weighted images. After standardized preprocessing, 1691 radiomic features were extracted, and feature selection was performed using minimum redundancy maximum relevance. Multivariate logistic regression (MLR) and random forest (RF) classifiers were developed using a training cohort (n = 52) and tested in an independent test cohort (n = 32). Model performance was assessed AUC, sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy. Results: In the training set, D-TGCT prevalence was 32.6%; in the test set, it was 40.6%. The MLR model used three T2WI features: wavelet-LHL_glszm_GrayLevelNonUniformity, wavelet-HLL_gldm_LowGrayLevelEmphasis, and square_firstorder_Median. Training performance was high (AUC 0.94; sensitivity 75.0%; specificity 90.9%; accuracy 85.7%) but dropped in testing (AUC 0.60; sensitivity 62.5%; specificity 60.6%; accuracy 61.2%). The RF classifier demonstrated more stable performance [(training) AUC 0.85; sensitivity 43.8%; specificity 87.9%; accuracy 73.5% and (test) AUC 0.73; sensitivity 56.2%; specificity 72.7%; accuracy 67.3%]. Conclusions: Radiomics-based MRI models may help predict D-TGCT. 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