IMRT 2018
Levels of Evidence of NTCP Models
Level
Description
NTCP model with evaluation of model performance in an independent dataset of at least one other institute (external validation) NTCP model with evaluation in an independent dataset of the same investigators/institute, but using a subsequent cohort NTCP model based on one dataset with internal validation using re- sampling techniques (e.g. bootstrapping or cross validation)
1a
1b
2
3
NTCP model with evaluation of performance using the same dataset
4
NTCP model without internal and external validation
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