Construction and exploratory validation of a digital pathology prognostic model for stage II–III colorectal cancer based on contrastive learning and attention mechanisms
Introduction Although TNM staging is the standard framework for prognostic assessment in colorectal cancer (CRC), patients within the same stage can have heterogeneous outcomes. This study aimed to extract tumor-tissue features from whole-slide images (WSIs), develop an image-derived prognostic model for stage II–III C...