A Review of Transformers in Medical Research and Health Care.

Lin, Ching-Heng; Kuo, Chang-Fu · Hand Clin · 2026

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Abstract

Artificial intelligence is transforming medical research and health care, with transformers playing a crucial role in advancing medical data analysis. Originally developed for natural language processing, transformers have successfully applied their self-attention mechanism to image and biological sequence analysis. However, their use in the medical field faces challenges such as data quality, interpretability, ethical issues, and resource demands.

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