From Pixels to Explanations: Interpretable Diabetic Retinopathy Grading with CNN-Transformer Ensembles, Visual Explainability and Vision-Language Models

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Learn to improve diabetic retinopathy grading with interpretable CNN-Transformer ensembles and visual explainability, enhancing clinical decision-making

advanced Published 28 Apr 2026
Action Steps
  1. Build a CNN-Transformer ensemble model using the APTOS 2019 benchmark dataset to classify diabetic retinopathy severity
  2. Configure visual explainability techniques to provide insights into model decisions
  3. Apply vision-language models to generate multimodal explanations for clinical interpretability
  4. Test the performance of the ensemble model on a validation set and evaluate its accuracy
  5. Compare the results with state-of-the-art models to assess the effectiveness of the proposed approach
Who Needs to Know This

Data scientists and clinicians working on medical image analysis can benefit from this approach to develop more accurate and interpretable diabetic retinopathy grading systems

Key Insight

💡 Combining CNN-Transformer ensembles with visual explainability and vision-language models can improve the accuracy and interpretability of diabetic retinopathy grading

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Key Takeaways

Learn to improve diabetic retinopathy grading with interpretable CNN-Transformer ensembles and visual explainability, enhancing clinical decision-making

Full Article

Title: From Pixels to Explanations: Interpretable Diabetic Retinopathy Grading with CNN-Transformer Ensembles, Visual Explainability and Vision-Language Models

Abstract:
arXiv:2604.23079v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The quality of diabetic retinopathy (DR) screening relies on the ability to correctly grade severity; however, many deep-learning (DL) classifiers cannot be easily interpreted in the clinical context. This study presents a methodology that combines strong discriminative models with multimodal explanations, converting retinal pixels into clinically interpretable outputs. Using the APTOS 2019 benchmark, we evaluated six representative CNN- and tran
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