CBAM-Enhanced MaxViT-Tiny for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Image Classification: Robustness, Explainability, and External Validation
This study proposes a CBAM-enhanced MaxViT-Tiny model for 8-class gastrointestinal endoscopy image classification that achieves high accuracy and explainability on clean data but demonstrates significant vulnerability to adversarial attacks and poor cross-attack generalization, highlighting the critical need for adversarial training and multi-center validation before clinical deployment.