Publication Name	World Journal of Psychiatry
Manuscript ID	108359
Country	Türkiye

Category	Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Manuscript Type	Observational Study
Article Title	Self-AttentionNeXt: Exploring schizophrenic optical coherence tomography image detection investigations
Manuscript Source	Invited Manuscript
All Author List	Mehmet Kaan Kaya, Sermal Arslan, Suheda Kaya, Gulay Tasci, Burak Tasci, Filiz Ozsoy, Sengul Dogan and Turker Tuncer
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Corresponding Author	Sengul Dogan, Professor, Department of Digital Forensics Engineering, College of Technology, Firat University, University district, Elazig 23119, Türkiye. sdogan@firat.edu.tr
Key Words	Self-AttentionNeXt; Optical coherence tomography image classification; Schizophrenia detection; Biomedical image classification; Deep learning in ophthalmology; Retinal imaging biomarkers
Core Tip	This study presents Self-AttentionNeXt, a novel deep learning architecture that integrates self-attention mechanisms from transformer models with convolutional neural networks for the classification of optical coherence tomography images. By focusing on retinal image regions most relevant to schizophrenia, the model achieves high diagnostic accuracy. The integration of inverted bottleneck attention blocks and residual connections enhances both feature representation and training stability. Self-AttentionNeXt demonstrates that combining attention mechanisms with convolutional neural networks can offer a powerful tool for supporting ophthalmic evaluation in patients with schizophrenia.
Citation	Kaya MK, Arslan S, Kaya S, Tasci G, Tasci B, Ozsoy F, Dogan S, Tuncer T. Self-AttentionNeXt: Exploring schizophrenic optical coherence tomography image detection investigations. World J Psychiatry 2025; In press

Received	2025-04-13 11:50
Peer-Review Started	2025-04-21 00:19
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Return for Revision	2025-05-12 02:25
Revised	2025-05-16 08:36
Second Decision	2025-06-23 11:35
Accepted by Journal Editor-in-Chief
Accepted by Executive Editor-in-Chief	2025-06-30 09:44
Articles in Press	2025-06-30 09:44
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