In the derivation cohort, the baseline characteristics of patients in the survival and non-survival groups were compared, and the results showed that in addition to age, sex, smoking, alcohol consumption, family history, encephalopathy, ALT level, serum Cr level, lymph node metastasis, and number of patients in BCLC stage B, most of the baseline characteristics of patients were different (Table 2). Here, GPT is linked to metastatic malignant neoplasm in the lymph nodes.