Vision Transformer Outperforms CNN Architectures in Binary Skin Lesion Classification: An Eight-Model Controlled Deep Learning Study
The findings simplify the selection of the model in clinical studies in implementing dermoscopy, suggesting that ViT-Small/16 should be used as a probabilistic-ranked malignancy screening model, and EfficientNetV2-S should be used as a fixed threshold binary triage model in a telemedicine system.