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Photonic quantum AI for edge oral cancer detection achieves high accuracy

Researchers have developed a parameter-efficient hybrid classical-continuous-variable (CV) photonic quantum classifier for oral cancer detection using smartphone images. This approach utilizes room-temperature photonic quantum computing, making it suitable for edge deployment unlike cryogenic qubit hardware. The proposed simplified CV-QNN architecture significantly reduces trainable parameters while mitigating barren plateaus, achieving high accuracy and outperforming classical baselines with fewer parameters. AI

IMPACT Demonstrates potential for parameter-efficient, room-temperature quantum machine learning on edge devices for medical image classification.

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Photonic quantum AI for edge oral cancer detection achieves high accuracy

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  1. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Akshay Bhagwan Sonawane, Sophie Choe, Lakshman Tamil ·

    Parameter-Efficient Continuous-Variable Photonic Quantum Neural Networks for Edge Quantum AI: Demonstration in Oral Cancer Detection

    arXiv:2606.28252v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Early detection of oral cancer markedly improves clinical outcomes, yet specialized diagnostic tools remain scarce in low-resource settings. Smartphone-based screening is a scalable alternative but needs lightweight models that ru…

  2. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Lakshman Tamil ·

    Parameter-Efficient Continuous-Variable Photonic Quantum Neural Networks for Edge Quantum AI: Demonstration in Oral Cancer Detection

    Early detection of oral cancer markedly improves clinical outcomes, yet specialized diagnostic tools remain scarce in low-resource settings. Smartphone-based screening is a scalable alternative but needs lightweight models that run within edge-hardware constraints. Hybrid classic…