borderline significantp = 0.057
Although advanced T stage (T3 – T4) was only borderline significant (OR = 2.558, 95% CI: 1.061–7.627, p = 0.057), it was retained in the clinical model due to its established prognostic relevance in CRC. 3.2 Radiomics feature engineering and signature construction A total of 1,896 high-dimensional 2D radiomics features were extracted from SM, SAT, IMAT, and VAT at the L3 level.