Alibaba's AI model outperforms most radiologists in detecting cancer

Alibaba open-sources AI model that can detect cancer and nearly 150 conditions

Alibaba's Damo Academy has open-sourced Damo Radar, a vision-language AI that reads contrast-enhanced CT scans of 18 abdominal organs to identify nearly 150 conditions, including cancers. In nearly 40,000 real-world exams, it achieved an average AUC of 0.913 across 146 clinical findings. In a study with 26 radiologists, the model's average accuracy beat 23 of them, and helped doctors cut missed diagnoses by 10% and reading time by over 30%. The research appears in Science.

The research team said the training method could eventually be extended to other types of medical imaging, calling the model “the world’s first expert-level generalist medical imaging model”.
  1. ElProlactin

    I much prefer Gemini. It tells me I'm very smart and almost always right.

  2. t0bia_s

    I'm wonder when there will be model for predict future. Could be named "Crystal bAill"

  3. westurner

    From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44693991 :

    > EPS3.9 also had significant anti-tumor effects in the mice with liver cancer and activated anti-tumor immune responses

    “A Novel Exopolysaccharide, Highly Prevalent in Marine Spongiibacter, Triggers Pyroptosis to Exhibit Potent Anticancer Effects” (2025) DOI: 10.1096/fj.202500412R https://faseb.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1096/fj.2025004...

    "A Gemma model helped discover a new potential cancer therapy pathway" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45604231 :

    > eCPMV VNPs + EPS3.9 + [...]

    "Scientists are discovering a powerful new way to prevent cancer"

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45474404

    Notes re: Kidneys not Livers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47460486 ; gh/topic/healthcare-ai

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