Jul 2026· Artificial Intelligence in Health· 0 citations
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This study introduces a hybrid quantum– classical deep learning framework that leverages quantum variational filtering in tandem with transfer learning via ViT-B16 and EfficientNet-B3 to enhance feature representation and demonstrates promising robustness and generalization in limited-data environments.
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Accurate classification of thyroid nodules is essential for early intervention and improved clinical outcomes; however, its diagnostic performance remains limited by inter-observer variability, limited data availability, and class imbalance in ultrasound imaging. Although existing deep learning models have demonstrated strong performance, they often struggle to capture both global semantic context and fine-grained structural details under limited data. This study introduces a hybrid quantum– classical deep learning framework that leverages quantum variational filtering in tandem with transfer learning via ViT-B16 and EfficientNet-B3 to enhance feature representation. A multi-stage preprocessing pipeline was designed to improve input diversity and class balance. The model jointly performs binary tumor classification and Thyroid Imaging Reporting and Data System (TI-RADS) level prediction, achieving 94.2% accuracy for benign-versus-malignant tumor classification and 91.8% macro-accuracy for TI-RADS prediction. The proposed approach demonstrates promising robustness and generalization in limited-data environments, highlighting the potential of integrating quantum encoding with classical deep learning architectures for medical image diagnostics.
Skin cancer is one of the most common malignancies in the world and early and accurate dermoscopic diagnosis is crucial for better survival outcomes of patients. There are various limitations in current single model convolutional and transformer models, such as limited ability to capture local texture, multi-scale morphology, and global contextual information, as well as high intra-class visual similarity and extreme class imbalance. To overcome these problems, this paper proposes an Attention-Guided Ensemble Deep Learning (AGEDL) framework which integrates the EfficientNet-B3, InceptionV3 and Swin Transformer to simultaneously learn complementary dermoscopic representations from the seven-class ISIC 2018 dataset. The Squeeze-and-Excitation (SE) attention blocks dynamically modulate feature responses in each channel, which reduces background noise and enhances discriminative features of lesions. The Lion optimizer offers stable and efficient training in both base training and fine-tuning stages. An XGBoost stacking metalearner is used to combine all backbone networks, and hyperparameters of the XGBoost are optimized by the Dhole Optimizer. The proposed AGEDL achieved 98.02% accuracy, 97.09% precision, 97.05% recall and 94.07% F1 score with 95% confidence interval of 97.41%–98.59%, surpassing the state-of-the-art CNN, transformer-based and hybrid ensemble baselines.
Dharavath Nagesh, Erukonda Jairam· 2026 4th International Confe...· 0 citations
The study concludes that model efficiency alone is insufficient; dependable brain tumor classification requires disciplined data handling, transparent reporting, and external validation, and external validation.
Ajay Khatri, Sanmati Jain· International Journal of Eng...· 0 citations
A unique explainable deep learning model that integrates Tiny-ConvNeXt and DenseNet169 using multi-stage brain tumor classification is proposed, indicating that the suggested model provides a transparent and reliable framework for brain tumor detection, with potential applications in practical clinical decision support systems.
Md Sadi Al Huda, K. Tanvir, Zubaida Akhter et al.· Artificial Intelligence and...· 0 citations
A clinical problem of early liver cancer is one of the most urgent ones due to the insidious nature of tumors, the lack of multimodal data consistency and large inter-subject variation. Conventional systems of diagnosing rely highly on manual interpretation and monomodality images that typically result in delayed diagnosis and reduced effectiveness in the treatment. The researcher in this study presents another model of multimodal deep intelligence to detect and categorize early liver cancer through the combination of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computed tomography (CT) data. The provided solution is an integrated self-regularized autoencoder (AE) to learn the multimodal representation and allows noise suppression and compression of latent features. Vision Transformer (ViT) involves extracting long-range spatial dependencies and context in fused representations. Dynamic maximization of diagnostic decision policy and classification confidence under different clinical settings ML networks are A Deep Belief Network (DBN) that has hierarchical tissue abstraction and probabilistic pattern modelling and Deep Q-Network (DQN) that optimizes diagnostic decision policy and classification confidence. A standard liver imaging dataset (612 institutional patients to be assessed in the first instance and 512 public patients to be assessed in the second instance) yields high diagnostic quality, potential for generalization, and classification accuracy with positive results of 98.76% (95% CI 98.12–99.34) and an AUC of 0.992 (95% The findings confirm that there was successful multimodal fusion with heterogeneous deep learning paradigms in the detection of early liver cancer. This research will add the presence of scalable, intelligent, and clinically relevant diagnostic architecture to facilitate timely responses and decision support systems to manage liver cancer.
T. Haripriya, K. Dharmarajan, Subrata Chowdhury et al.· Discover Artificial Intellig...· 0 citations
Thyroid cancer is among the most common malignancies, and ultrasound is the primary imaging modality due to its safety and wide availability. Accurate diagnosis remains difficult because of low contrast, acoustic shadowing, and subtle visual differences between benign and malignant nodules. These factors increase observer variability and lead to missed or incorrect diagnoses. Prior deep learning methods address this problem only partially by selectively focusing on spatial information and failing to capture long‐range dependencies. Other approaches rely on handcrafted texture descriptors and overlook critical grayscale patterns in ultrasound. This paper presents a
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work (QTexS‐Net) for thyroid nodule classification in ultrasound imaging. The proposed framework jointly learns complementary spatial and textural representations. A spatial‐aware autoencoder captures local structures and global contextual dependencies, while a texture‐aware branch preserves fine‐grained grayscale characteristics relevant to malignancy. A quantum‐inspired fusion mechanism models interactions between spatial and textural features, leading to more discriminative representations and improved training efficiency. Experiments on three public benchmark datasets show that QTexS‐Net consistently outperforms existing methods. Ablation studies and cross‐dataset evaluations confirm the contribution of each component. Explainability analyses further highlight clinically meaningful regions, supporting reliable, interpretable decision‐making in thyroid nodule assessment and providing transparent decision support for clinicians.
Chandravardhan Singh Raghaw, Tanisha Jitendra Sahu, Prajakta Darade et al.· International journal of ima...· 0 citations
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