Advances in Medical Imaging and Diagnosis

The field of medical imaging and diagnosis is rapidly advancing with the integration of artificial intelligence and machine learning. Recent developments have focused on improving the accuracy and interpretability of medical image analysis, particularly in the detection of rare diseases and conditions. Researchers are exploring the use of retrieval-augmented agents, large language models, and multimodal datasets to enhance diagnostic decision-making. Notable advancements include the development of specialized models for fracture pathology detection and description, fine-grained vision-language models for medical interpretation, and fast multi-organ segmentation frameworks. These innovations have the potential to improve patient outcomes and enhance clinical decision-support systems.

Noteworthy papers include: RADAR, which introduces a retrieval-augmented diagnostic reasoning agent for rare disease detection in brain MRI, achieving a 10.2% performance gain on the NOVA dataset. EyeAgent, a multimodal AI agent for clinical decision support in ophthalmology, which demonstrated a progressive improvement in diagnostic accuracy and received high expert ratings for accuracy, completeness, safety, reasoning, and interpretability.

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Learning to reason about rare diseases through retrieval-augmented agents

A benchmark multimodal oro-dental dataset for large vision-language models

Connectomics Informed by Large Language Models

GroupKAN: Rethinking Nonlinearity with Grouped Spline-based KAN Modeling for Efficient Medical Image Segmentation

Auto-US: An Ultrasound Video Diagnosis Agent Using Video Classification Framework and LLMs

ChexFract: From General to Specialized - Enhancing Fracture Description Generation

Anatomy-VLM: A Fine-grained Vision-Language Model for Medical Interpretation

Fast Multi-Organ Fine Segmentation in CT Images with Hierarchical Sparse Sampling and Residual Transformer

MM-CRITIC: A Holistic Evaluation of Large Multimodal Models as Multimodal Critique

Towards Trustworthy Dermatology MLLMs: A Benchmark and Multimodal Evaluator for Diagnostic Narratives

A multimodal AI agent for clinical decision support in ophthalmology

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