Alibaba open-sources Damo Radar, an AI model detecting 150 abdominal conditions from CT scans
Dr_Singularity · x · 2026-09-20
Alibaba's DAMO Academy has open-sourced Damo Radar, a vision-language model that identifies nearly 150 abdominal conditions—including cancers—from contrast-enhanced CT scans covering 18 abdominal organs. The team calls it "the world's first expert-level generalist medical imaging model."
Key numbers:
- Average AUC of 0.913 across 146 clinical findings in 40,000 real-world exams
- Outperformed 23 of 26 radiologists from multiple hospitals on average
- With model assistance, radiologists cut missed diagnoses by 10% and diagnosis time by 30%+
Reported via SCMP and Anadolu Agency; could eventually extend to other imaging types.
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