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ArticleCancers2024

Classification of Mobile-Based Oral Cancer Images Using the Vision Transformer and the Swin Transformer.

Bofan Song, Dharma Raj Kc, Rubin Yuchan Yang, Shaobai Li, Chicheng Zhang, Rongguang Liang

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Article in Cancers, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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21 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Transformer-based models in dentistry: a systematic review.BMC medical informatics and decision making · 2026
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Bofan SongWyant College of Optical Sciences, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA.
Dharma Raj KcComputer Science Department, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0676-2391
Rubin Yuchan YangComputer Science Department, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA.
Shaobai LiWyant College of Optical Sciences, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA.
Chicheng ZhangComputer Science Department, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA.
Rongguang LiangWyant College of Optical Sciences, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA.

Funding

Multimodal Intraoral Imaging System for Oral Cancer Detection and Diagnosis in Low Resource SettingR01DE030682 · NIDCR · UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA · PI LIANG, RONGGUANG · 2021 to 2025
$2.8M
Low-cost Mobile Oral Cancer Screening for Low Resource SettingUH3CA239682 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA · PI LIANG, RONGGUANG · 2018 to 2020
$2.5M
NCI NIH HHS UH3 CA239682NIDCR NIH HHS R01 DE030682NIH HHS R01DE030682NIH HHS R01DE030682-02S1NIH HHS UH3CA239682
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Oral cancer, a pervasive and rapidly growing malignant disease, poses a significant global health concern. Early and accurate diagnosis is pivotal for improving patient outcomes. Automatic diagnosis methods based on artificial intelligence have shown promising results in the oral cancer field, but the accuracy still needs to be improved for realistic diagnostic scenarios. Vision Transformers (ViT) have outperformed learning CNN models recently in many computer vision benchmark tasks. This study explores the effectiveness of the Vision Transformer and the Swin Transformer, two cutting-edge variants of the transformer architecture, for the mobile-based oral cancer image classification application. The pre-trained Swin transformer model achieved 88.7% accuracy in the binary classification task, outperforming the ViT model by 2.3%, while the conventional convolutional network model VGG19 and ResNet50 achieved 85.2% and 84.5% accuracy. Our experiments demonstrate that these transformer-based architectures outperform traditional convolutional neural networks in terms of oral cancer image classification, and underscore the potential of the ViT and the Swin Transformer in advancing the state of the art in oral cancer image analysis.

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artificial intelligenceoral canceroral image analysisSwin TransformerVision Transformer

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PMID38473348
PMCPMC10931180

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