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We retrospectively analyzed 1853 patients with pelvic AP radiographs, including 3706 sacroiliac joints (SIJs). Pelvic AP radiographs served as input data for the DL model development, while the presence or absence of sacroiliitis confirmed by pelvic computed tomography (CT) was used as the reference standard output data. Based on CT findings, 1463 of 1853 right SIJs showed evidence of sacroiliitis, while 390 had no sacroiliitis. Similar findings were observed in the left SIJs. The dataset was split with 70% (1297 images) for training and 30% (556 images) for validation. The areas under the curve (AUC) for our DL model on the validation dataset were 0.871 (95% confidence interval (CI): 0.834\u20130.907) and 0.869 (95% CI: 0.834\u20130.907) for the left and right SIJs, respectively. Diagnostic accuracies for sacroiliitis on the left and right sides were 85.4% and 86.3%, respectively. 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