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VetClaw system uses multimodal AI for veterinary disease screening

Researchers have developed VetClaw, a novel edge-cloud system designed for veterinary disease screening. This system utilizes a camera on an edge device to capture images and optional symptom descriptions, which are then sent to a server-hosted vision-language model for zero-shot classification. VetClaw separates agent interaction (OpenClaw) from workflow orchestration (LangGraph), enabling features like tool invocation, safety checks, and failure handling. The system demonstrates that multimodal inputs, combining images and symptoms, significantly improve classification performance compared to image-only predictions. AI

IMPACT This system demonstrates a practical application of multimodal AI agents for specialized diagnostic tasks, potentially improving efficiency and accuracy in veterinary medicine.

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VetClaw system uses multimodal AI for veterinary disease screening

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  1. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Syed Mhamudul Hasan, Anas AlSobeh, Hussein Zangoti, Abdur R. Shahid ·

    VetClaw: An Edge-Cloud Multimodal Agentic System for Veterinary Disease Screening

    arXiv:2607.26042v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present VetClaw, an edge-cloud multimodal agentic system for early veterinary disease screening. VetClaw uses a camera module as an edge sensing device and sends captured images, together with optional symptom descriptions, to a …