Abstract:The transformer has dominated the natural language processing (NLP) field for a long time. Recently, the transformer-based method has been adopted into the computer vision (CV) field and shows promising results. As an important branch of the CV field, medical image analysis joins the wave of the transformer-based method rightfully. In this review, we illustrate the principle of the attention mechanism, and the detailed structures of the transformer, and depict how the transformer is adopted into medical image … Show more
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