A CLIP-Based Multimodal Endorectal Ultrasound Model for Predicting Metachronous Liver Metastases in Rectal Cancer.
OBJECTIVE To develop and externally validate a contrastive language-image pretraining (CLIP)-based multimodal model integrating pretreatment multiplanar three-dimensional endorectal ultrasound (3D-ERUS) images and ERUS reports for predicting metachronous liver metastasis (MLM) after radical surgery in rectal cancer....