Figure 1.

Clinical applications of AI for CRC. The inner circle represents the main data types in CRC research, including radiological images (i.e., Computed Tomography (CT), Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), etc), endoscopic images, pathological images, clinical data, and omics data; the outer circle represents the four key clinical parts of CRC, i.e., screening, diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis; for each clinical part, AI has subdivided and specific tasks, which are shown in boxes outside the circle respectively. OS, overall survival; DFS, disease-free survival; nCRT, neoadjuvant radiotherapy.