AI RESEARCH

Systematic Evaluation of Vision Transformers for Automated Cervical Cancer Classification: Optimization, Statistical Validation, and Clinical Interpretability

arXiv CS.CV

ArXi:2605.17236v1 Announce Type: new Manual Pap smear analysis for cervical cancer screening is limited by inter-observer variability, time constraints, and restricted expert availability. Although convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have automated cervical cell classification, they remain limited in modeling long-range spatial dependencies and often lack clinical interpretability. In this study, Vision Transformer (ViT) architectures were systematically optimized to enhance automated cervical cancer screening, which resulted in improved interpretability.