Recent ViT based models for Breast Cancer Histopathology Image Classification

Breast cancer is one of the most common type of cancer affecting women worldwide, and a leading cause of cancer-related deaths. Histopathology image analysis plays a vital role in breast cancer diagnosis. Early diagnosis and accurate classification of breast cancer histopathology images can help for effective treatment. In recent years, deep learning-based image classification methods have shown promising results in automated breast cancer diagnosis. Earlier, Convolutional Neural Network(CNN) had a huge attention in image classification tasks, and also obtained a good performances in histopathology image classification. Recently, Vision Transformer (ViT) based on self-attention mechanism has shown promising results in computer vision tasks, including image classification. In this paper, we review recent ViT-based model for breast cancer histopathology image classification. Furthermore, we summarize the results obtained from our experiments with both CNN and ViT-based models in breast cancer histopathology image classification.