BRIEF RESEARCH REPORT article
Front. Artif. Intell.
Sec. Pattern Recognition
Volume 8 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/frai.2025.1575427
This article is part of the Research TopicAI-Enabled Breakthroughs in Computational Imaging and Computer VisionView all 3 articles
Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma Grading Classification Using Deep Transformer Encoder Assisted Dilated Convolutional With Global Attention
Provisionally accepted- SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, India
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In recent years, Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma (OSCC) has been a common tumor in the orofacial region, affecting areas such as the teeth, jaw, and temporomandibular joint. OSCC is classified into three grades: "well-differentiated, moderately differentiated, and poorly differentiated", with a high morbidity and mortality rate among patients. Several existing methods, such as AlexNet, CNN, U-Net, and V-Net, have been used for OSCC classification. However, these methods face limitations, including low ACC, poor comparability, insufficient data collection, and prolonged training times. To address these limitations, we introduce a novel Deep Transformer Encoder-Assisted Dilated Convolution with Global Attention (DeTr-DiGAtt) model for OSCC classification. To enhance the dataset and mitigate over-fitting, a GAN model is employed for data augmentation. Additionally, an Adaptive Bilateral Filter (Ad-BF) is used to improve image quality and remove undesirable noise. For accurate identification of the affected region, an Improved Multi-Encoder Residual Squeeze U-Net (Imp-MuRs-Unet) model is utilized for segmentation. The DeTr-DiGAtt model is then applied to classify different OSCC grading levels. Furthermore, an Adaptive Grey Lag Goose Optimization Algorithm (Ad-GreLop) is used for hyperparameter tuning. The proposed method achieves an accuracy(ACC) of 98.59%, a Dice score of 97.97%, and an Intersection over Union (IoU) of 98.08%.
Keywords: GAN model, Adaptive bilateral filter, U-net model, Dilated convolutional, Grey lag goose optimization algorithm and global attention
Received: 12 Feb 2025; Accepted: 23 Sep 2025.
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* Correspondence: Minu R I, r_i_minu@yahoo.co.in
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