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New benchmark tests LLMs' clinical diagnosis skills in simulated patient encounters

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Researchers have developed Hx2Dx ARENA, a new benchmark designed to evaluate large language models (LLMs) in conversational clinical reasoning. This benchmark simulates the iterative process of diagnosis, involving history taking, physical examination, and test interpretation, using 1,000 clinical cases from The New England Journal of Medicine. Initial evaluations show that LLMs perform significantly worse in this interactive setting compared to static evaluations where all information is provided upfront, highlighting their limitations in hypothesis-driven information gathering and knowing what questions to ask. AI

IMPACT Highlights limitations in LLMs' ability to gather information through questioning, a critical step for safe integration into clinical diagnostics.

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New benchmark tests LLMs' clinical diagnosis skills in simulated patient encounters

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Federico Ravenda, Mirko Cesarini, Daniele Montagnani, Volodymyr Karpenko, Antonietta Mira, Andrea Raballo ·

    Hx2Dx: From Anamnesis to Diagnosis - A Multimodal Arena for Conversational Clinical Reasoning in LLMs

    arXiv:2611.14122v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) achieve expert-level diagnostic accuracy in static evaluations, where the model receives a curated vignette or case report that already condenses the diagnostically relevant findings. Such evaluations me…

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