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A scoping review of AI in the classification of oral cancer and oral potentially malignant disorders from visible-light photography.

Digital health · Goodmaker C, Bhandari R, Tappuni A, Pham TD · 2026-08-22

Researchers reviewed 127 studies applying AI to oral photographs for detecting oral cancer and precancerous lesions, finding that most studies used limited validation methods, publicly available datasets, and simplified classification tasks that excluded precancerous categories.

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