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ArticleBioengineering (Basel, Switzerland)2025

Transformative Approaches in Breast Cancer Detection: Integrating Transformers into Computer-Aided Diagnosis for Histopathological Classification.

Majed Alwateer, Amna Bamaqa, Mohamed Farsi, Mansourah Aljohani, Mohamed Shehata, Mostafa A Elhosseini

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Article in Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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Majed AlwateerDepartment of Computer Science, College of Computer Science and Engineering, Taibah University, Yanbu 46421, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0001-6430-9806
Amna BamaqaDepartment of Computer Science and Informatics, Applied College, Taibah University, Madinah 41461, Saudi Arabia.
Mohamed FarsiDepartment of Information Systems, College of Computer Science and Engineering, Taibah University, Yanbu 46421, Saudi Arabia.
Mansourah AljohaniDepartment of Computer Science, College of Computer Science and Engineering, Taibah University, Yanbu 46421, Saudi Arabia.
Mohamed ShehataDepartment of Bioengineering, Speed School of Engineering, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40292, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6640-6183
Mostafa A ElhosseiniDepartment of Information Systems, College of Computer Science and Engineering, Taibah University, Yanbu 46421, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0002-1259-6193

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Breast cancer (BC) remains a leading cause of cancer-related mortality among women worldwide, necessitating advancements in diagnostic methodologies to improve early detection and treatment outcomes. This study proposes a novel twin-stream approach for histopathological image classification, utilizing both histopathologically inherited and vision-based features to enhance diagnostic precision. The first stream utilizes Virchow2, a deep learning model designed to extract high-level histopathological features, while the second stream employs Nomic, a vision-based transformer model, to capture spatial and contextual information. The fusion of these streams ensures a comprehensive feature representation, enabling the model to achieve state-of-the-art performance on the BACH dataset. Experimental results demonstrate the superiority of the twin-stream approach, with a mean accuracy of 98.60% and specificity of 99.07%, significantly outperforming single-stream methods and related studies. Statistical analyses, including paired

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breast cancer (BC)deep learning (DL)digital histopathologytransformers

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PMID40150677
PMCPMC11939498

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