Tailoring therapy through response evaluation: A new era in the management of locally advanced rectal cancer

Table 1 Evaluation performance of different techniques in locally advanced rectal cancer patients after neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy

Evaluation methods	Area under the curve	Ref.
CT imaging histology	0.881	[25]
MRI, T2WI	0.88-0.91	[33]
MRI, gadolinium-enhanced	0.94	[38]
MRI-based tumor regression grade	0.729	[57]
Cell-free DNA	0.818 (0.886 when combined with MRI evaluation)	[57]
Deep learning algorithm	0.713	[63]
Endoscopy-based deep convolutional neural network	0.77	[64]
Contrastive language-image pretraining-based multimodal endorectal ultrasound	0.928	[65]
Gut microbial profile analysis	0.988	[72,78]

CT: Computed tomography; MRI: Magnetic resonance imaging; T2WI: T2-weighted imaging.