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. 2026 Mar 13;18(6):938. doi: 10.3390/cancers18060938
BCG Bacillus Calmette–Guérin
BRS BCG response subtype
CAFs Cancer-associated fibroblasts
CI Confidence interval
CIS Carcinoma in situ
CNN Convolutional neural network
CNS Cellular neighborhoods
EAU European Association of Urology
FFPE Formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded
FDR False discovery rate
H&E Hematoxylin and eosin
HL Hodges-Lehmann
HR Hazard ratio
ICTC Immune cell cluster located within the tumor compartment
IHC Immunohistochemistry
II index Immune composition within the immune compartment
IMC Imaging mass cytometry
IMC-GA-MIL IMC-specific gated attention multiple instance learning
IT index Immune/stromal abundance relative to tumor cells
kNN k-nearest neighbors
LVI Lymphovascular invasion
MIBC Muscle-invasive bladder cancer
NK cells Natural killer cells
NMIBC Non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer
PFS Progression-free survival
RFS Recurrence-free survival
ResNet Residual neural network
SCs Spatial contexts
TMA Tissue microarray
TME Tumor microenvironment
TT index Tumor phenotypic composition
Treg Regulatory T cell