Objective Exploring factors influencing the occurrence of visceral pleural invasion(VPI)in early stage 30 mm non-small cell lung cancer.Methods The clinical,imaging and pathological data of 449 patients diagnosed as ear-ly-stage non-small cell lung cancer by postoperative pathology in Anqing Municipal Hospital,Zhejiang Tongde Hospital and the First Affiliated Hospital of Bengbu Medical University during the period of January 2021-November 2023 were retrospec-tively analyzed,and the patients were divided into two groups according to whether they had developed VPI or not,and the influencing factors of the development of VPI in non-small cell lung cancer were analyzed by unifactorial and multifactorial regression.Results Among the 449 patients,121 were in the VPI-positive group and 328 were in the VPI-negative group.Univariate analysis showed that the diameter of the lesion and the length of contact between the solid part and the pleura in the VPI(+)group were significantly larger than those in the VPI(-)group,and the CT values were higher;the age of the patients,history of lung diseases and clinical diseases,type of nodules and percentage of solid component of the lesion,morphology,lobular sign,burr sign,air-containing lumen,bronchial sign,the relationship of the lesion to the pleura,the number of pleural tags and obstructive inflammation were all statistically significant in the VPI(+)groups and VPI(-)groups were statistically significant(P value<0.05),and multifactorial regression analysis showed that nodule type,num-ber of pleural tags,length of contact between the solid part of the lesion and the pleura,and CT value were the CT character-istic indexes of pleural invasion in non-small cell lung cancer.The areas under the curve of these factors individually and jointly predicted pleural invasion were 0.796,0.770,0.832,0.754,and 0.966,respectively.The sensitivity,specificity,and accuracy of the combined model were 90.1%,92.1%,and 90.9%,respectively.Conclusion When pleural invasion oc-curred in non-small cell lung cancer lesions,the lesions mostly showed partially solid nodules with a high proportion of solid components and solid nodules with high CT values,and the probability of pleural invasion was high when the solid portion of the lesion had a long length of contact with the pleura and had multiple pleural tags.