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 REDUCTIONThis review covers transformer AI models, originally built for language processing, and their use in medical data analysis, along with challenges of data quality, interpretability, ethics, and resource demands.
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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