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New medical LLM, PathChat 2, can talk to pathologists about tumors, offer diagnoses
PathChat serves as a consultant, of sorts, for human pathologists to help identify, assess and diagnose tumors and other serious conditions.
“PathChat 2 is a multimodal large language model that understands pathology images and clinically relevant text and can basically have a conversation with a pathologist,” Richard Chen, Modella founding CTO, explained in a demo video. The model was able to summarize, classify and caption; could describe notable morphological details; and answered questions that typically require background knowledge in pathology and general biomedicine. Meanwhile, in the prompt method supplemented with clinical context, PathChat was given an image of what to the layman looks like a closeup of blue and purple sprinkles on a piece of cake, and was informed: “This tumor was found in the liver of a patient.
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