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Improving Diagnostic Sensitivity in Imbalanced Oral Cancer Image Classification: A Comparative Study of CNN and Transformer Architectures.

Cancers · Ormeño-Arriagada P, Zúñiga V, Toro C, Márquez G, Araya D, Mellado D, Taramasco C · 2026-09-09

Researchers compared three machine-learning architectures on 3,000 oral images to classify lesions as healthy, benign, potentially malignant, or cancerous, finding that data augmentation improved cancer detection sensitivity and overall diagnostic performance better than under- or over-sampling approaches.

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