The paper introduces MACD, a Multi-Agent Clinical Diagnosis framework that enables large language models to self‑learn clinical knowledge through a multi‑agent pipeline of summarization, refinement, and application. MACD is extended into a human‑AI collaborative workflow where multiple diagnostician agents consult iteratively, guided by a judge agent and human oversight. Evaluation on the MIMIC‑MACD cohort shows significant gains in diagnostic accuracy—an average 11.6 percentage‑point improvement over authoritative knowledge for open‑weight LLMs and an 18.3‑percentage‑point boost over physician‑only diagnosis in text‑only vignettes.
By Wenliang Li, Rui Yan, Xu Zhang, Li Chen, Hongji Zhu, Jing Zhao, Junjun Li, Mengru Li, Wei Cao, Zihang Jiang, Wei Wei, Kun Zhang, Shaohua Kevin Zhou
arXiv:2608.21948v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Complex clinical reasoning requires models to update diagnostic hypotheses as new evidence emerges and to coordinate different medical specialities und...
By Sike Xiang, Shuang Chen, Qian sun, Jia Cheng, Yusi Wei, Amir Atapour-Abarghouei
arXiv:2608. 11420v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Medical diagnostic reasoning is a high-impact use case for LLMs that carries significant implications for the health and wellbeing of users.
By Del Coburn, Scott Sanner, Dan Silver
arXiv:2607. 22555v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Medical diagnosis is a multi-stage process: extract facts, consult knowledge, generate a differential analysis, and select the best diagnosis with explanations.
By Mahmood Bayeshi, Veysel Kocaman, Muhammed Ali Naqvi, Yigit Gul, David Talby
arXiv:2603. 01131v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Clinical diagnosis is a gradual process of evidence integration, in which physicians move from symptoms and medical history to examinations, competing hypotheses, disease relations, and treatment decisions.
By Yuqi Zhan, Xinyue Wu, Tianyu Lin, Yutong Bao, Xiaoyu Wang, Weihao Cheng, Huangwei Chen, Feiwei Qin, Zhu Zhu
arXiv:2609.15161v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Large language model (LLM) driven multi-agent systems have shown promise in complex clinical reasoning, yet existing approaches rely on static strate...
By Dongsheng Shi, Yue Li, Xin Yi, Linlin Wang
arXiv:2505. 14107v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The emergence of groundbreaking large language models capable of performing complex reasoning tasks holds significant promise for addressing various scientific challenges, including those arising in complex clinical scenarios.
By Yakun Zhu, Zhongzhen Huang, Linjie Mu, Yutong Huang, Wei Nie, Jiaji Liu, Shaoting Zhang, Pengfei Liu, Xiaofan Zhang
arXiv:2510. 21324v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Chest X-ray (CXR) plays a pivotal role in clinical diagnosis, and a variety of task-specific and foundation models have been developed for automatic CXR interpretation.
By Jinhui Lou, Yan Yang, Zhou Yu, Zhenqi Fu, Weidong Han, Qingming Huang, Jun Yu
arXiv:2606. 08938v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Clinical diagnosis requires flexible use of multiple reasoning paradigms under incomplete patient information.
By Gen Li, Yuanze Hu, Zhichao Yang, Qingchen Yu, Jianwei Lv, Yue Guo, Yujing Liu, Faguo Wu, Hongwei Zheng, Xiandong Li, Bo Yuan, Yifan Sun, Zhaoxin Fan
EviDx is a new framework for evidence-aware active diagnosis that pairs patient-specific diagnostic environments with a clinical scaffold and an observer-guided runtime harness. The framework constructs interactive environments from raw clinical cases, organizes role-specialized agents and evidence tools, and regulates diagnostic termination by tracking uncertainty and evidence coverage. Experiments demonstrate that EviDx improves diagnostic performance and process stability while revealing model-dependent capability boundaries.
By Lihang Zeng, Shaoting Zhang, Xiaofan Zhang
The paper introduces Debate-Mixture-of-Agents (DMoA), a multi‑agent framework that structures role‑based interactions to mimic iterative diagnostic reasoning in clinical settings. Evaluated on 297 rare disease cases and 1,719 challenging cases, DMoA outperformed a GPT‑4o baseline, improving most likely diagnosis accuracy by 10.21 percentage points and safety rate by 11.36 percentage points. Ablation studies and further analyses revealed that these gains stem from the structured workflow rather than merely adding more models or longer outputs, and that performance benefits are influenced by the chosen structure, base model strength, and token budget.
By Chang Xia, Leilei Ouyang, Huimin Wang, Yong Zhao, Kang Li
arXiv:2609.24480v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Deploying Large Language Models (LLMs) in healthcare requires robust performance across two complementary dimensions - diagnostic reasoning: the conv...
By Kalash Shah, Kunal Singh, Snehan J, Shreyas Singh