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Comparative Study of CNN, Hybrid, and Transformer Architectures in Medical Image Classification.

Aug 2026 · Journal of imaging informatics in medicine · 0 citations · 14 references
Medicine

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The results show that larger models and larger pretraining datasets do not automatically lead to better downstream performance, and transfer effectiveness in medical imaging is driven primarily by architectural inductive biases, pretraining strategy, and domain relevance.

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