Predicting Postoperative Recurrence Using a Support Vector Machine for Patients With Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma: Machine Learning Modeling Development and Validation Study

Meng Qing Xu   ^{1 *} , MD ;   Zhi Sheng Jiang   ^{2 *} , MSc ;   Wan Yu Liao   ^{1, 3 *} , MD ;   Ying Kang   ^{1, 3 *} , MD ;   Xiao Yue Feng   ^{1, 3} , MD ;   Kang Jiang   ¹ , MD ;   Qiong Jiang   ¹ , MD ;   Zhuang Zhuang Cong   ² , MD ;   Jing Luo   ² , MD ;   Lin Wu   ¹ , MD ;   Yi Shen   ² , MD, PhD ;   Fang Yu Wang   ^{1, 3} , MD, PhD

¹ Department of Gastroenterology, Jinling Hospital, Affiliated Hospital of Medical School, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

² Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Jinling Hospital, Affiliated Hospital of Medical School, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

³ Department of Gastroenterology, Jinling Hospital, Jinling School of Clinical Medicine, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

*these authors contributed equally