A Review of Transformers in Medical Research and Health Care.

Hand Clin · Feb 2026 · Review

Lin CH, Kuo CF

Center for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Research Building 3rd Floor AI Core Lab,…

Hand & Upper Extremity

SUMMARY — THE REDUCTIONTransformer artificial intelligence models show promise in medical research through self-attention mechanisms for analyzing text, images, and biological sequences, but face challenges with data quality, interpretability, and ethical concerns.
Abstract, as published

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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