Audio-visual interaction is the standard for patient-physician consultations, enabling natural communication and effective assessment of illness through non-verbal cues. While text-based AI has shown promise, it discards essential perceptual dimensions and limits patients who cannot articulate symptoms in writing.
arXiv:2608. 09861v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Audio-visual interaction is the standard for patient-physician consultations, enabling natural communication and effective assessment of illness through non-verbal cues.
By Mahvish Nagda, Jihyeon Lee, Matthew Thompson, Chunjong Park, Tim Strother, Valentin Li\'evin, Roma Ruparel, Akshay Goel, Teya Bergamaschi, Suhana Bedi, Meet Shah, Pavel Dubov, Liviu Panait, Toshiyuki Fukuzawa, Sam Schmidgall, Craig Schiff, Joseph Xu, Aliya Rysbek, Yana Lunts, Jan Freyberg, Rebecca Hemengway, Sunny Virmani, David Racz, Carey Radebaugh, Jo\"elle Barral, Kavi Goel, Dale R. Webster, Katherine Chou, Avinatan Hassidim, Yossi Matias, James Manyika, Gregory Wayne, Tao Tu, Yun Liu, Ethan Goh, Christina Chen, Ryutaro Tanno, Po-Hsuan Cameron Chen, Mike Schaekermann, Anil Palepu
arXiv:2603. 25821v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We present Doctorina MedBench, an evaluation framework for agent-based medical AI based on the simulation of physician-patient interactions.
By Anna Kozlova, Stanislau Salavei, Pavel Satalkin, Hanna Plotnitskaya, Sergey Parfenyuk, Andy Nkansah
arXiv:2606. 30887v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models show promise for mental health support, yet therapeutic quality improves only when evaluation functions as an actionable control signal rather than a passive metric.
By Mizanur Rahman, Abeer Badawi, Elahe Rahimi, Laleh Seyyed-Kalantari, Frank Rudzicz, Enamul Hoque, Elham Dolatabadi
arXiv:2512. 01241v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) and medical AI tools are routinely used by physicians and patients for medical advice, yet their clinical safety profiles remain poorly characterized.
By David Wu, Fateme Nateghi Haredasht, Saloni Kumar Maharaj, Priyank Jain, Jessica Tran, Matthew Gwiazdon, Arjun Rustagi, Jenelle Jindal, Jacob M. Koshy, Vinay Kadiyala, Anup Agarwal, Bassman Tappuni, Brianna French, Sirus Jesudasen, Christopher V. Cosgriff, Rebanta Chakraborty, Jillian Caldwell, Susan Ziolkowski, David J. Iberri, Robert Diep, Rahul S. Dalal, Kira L. Newman, Kristin Galetta, J. Carl Pallais, Nancy Wei, Kathleen M. Buchheit, David I. Hong, Vartan Pahalyants, Ernest Y. Lee, Allen Shih, Tamara B. Kaplan, Vishnu Ravi, Sarita Khemani, Thomas A. Buckley, April S. Liang, Daniel Shirvani, Advait Patil, Nicholas Marshall, Kanav Chopra, Joel Koh, Adi Badhwar, Anastasia Perez, Austin J. Schoeffler, Mahbuba Tusty, Chase M. Walton, Liam G. McCoy, David J. H. Wu, Yingjie Weng, Sumant Ranji, Kevin Schulman, Nigam H. Shah, Jason Hom, Arnold Milstein, Arjun K. Manrai, Adam Rodman, Jonathan H. Chen, Ethan Goh
arXiv:2607. 25667v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Psychotherapists need repeated training and supervision by experts; however, scalability is problematic.
By Rodolfo Rizzi, Alessandro Grecucci, Massimo Stella
arXiv:2608. 06110v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents ECHO (Enhanced Care \& Health Observer), a locally-deployable conversational health assistant for long-term chronic care management.
By Abdulkadir K\"ul\c{c}e, Alihan Esen, Ca\u{g}la Fikir, Berke Kurt, Kuzey Arar, G\"okhan Ercan, Faik Boray Tek
arXiv:2606. 17339v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Speech offers a uniquely informative window into health by simultaneously engaging neurological, motor, respiratory, and vocal systems.
By Sejal Bhalla, Larry Kieu, Aina Merchant, Eyal de Lara, Alex Mariakakis
arXiv:2606. 30491v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Background.
By Zhuhan Bao, Rui Yang, Bohao Yang, Zhiyi Liu, Sicheng Shu, Ruio Heerschap, Le Li, Doris Yang, Elisabeth Bond, Haoyuan Wang, Nicoleta Economou-Zavlanos, Joshua M. Biro, Matthew McDermott, Nan Liu, Anand Chowdhury, Kai Sun, Kathryn Pollak, Ed Hammond, Chuan Hong
arXiv:2509. 02594v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Evaluating large language models (LLMs) on their ability to generate high-quality, accurate, situationally aware answers to clinical questions requires going beyond conventional benchmarks to assess how these systems behave in complex, high-stakes clinical scenarios.
By Sandhanakrishnan Ravichandran, Shivesh Kumar, Rogerio Corga Da Silva, Miguel Romano, Reinhard Berkels, Michiel van der Heijden, Olivier Fail, Valentine Emmanuel Gnanapragasam
arXiv:2607. 08257v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have shown strong performance on isolated psychiatric tasks, including dialogue, diagnosis, and treatment planning, yet existing benchmarks rarely simulate complete psychiatric clinical encounters.
By Yuming Yang, Xiao Sun, Yuanwei Zou, Zhengxiao Wu, Yun Chen, Jiang Zhong, Haoyang Zeng, Jingwang Huang, Kaiwen Wei
arXiv:2606. 18645v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Dysarthria is a speech disorder marked by reduced intelligibility and communicative effectiveness.
By Kaimeng Jia, Minzhu Tu, Zengrui Jin, Siyin Wang, Chao Zhang