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Agentic AI framework enhances healthcare diagnostics with safety gates

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Researchers have developed an agentic AI framework designed to improve diagnostic accuracy in healthcare applications by addressing premature handoffs and silent hallucinations. The system utilizes a multi-agent approach with two key safety mechanisms: a state-tracking gate enforcing the OLDCARTS clinical protocol and an epistemic uncertainty quantification gate to detect divergent outputs. Evaluations using simulated patients and the Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct model showed a 49.3% diagnostic precision, an 11.3 percentage point improvement over a baseline, and a correlation between structured information gathering and reduced diagnostic uncertainty. AI

IMPACT This framework could lead to more reliable AI diagnostic tools in healthcare, reducing errors and improving patient safety.

RANK_REASON The cluster contains an arXiv paper detailing a new research framework and its evaluation.

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COVERAGE [2]

  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Divyansh Srivastava, Shreya Ghosh, Anshul Verma, Rajkumar Buyya ·

    Agentic AI-based Framework for Mitigating Premature Diagnostic Handoff and Silent Hallucination in Healthcare Applications

    arXiv:2606.18068v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) and multi-agent systems have driven the rise of Agentic AI, showing promise for medical reasoning. However, open-ended conversational agents remain prone to two critical failure modes:…

  2. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Rajkumar Buyya ·

    Agentic AI-based Framework for Mitigating Premature Diagnostic Handoff and Silent Hallucination in Healthcare Applications

    Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) and multi-agent systems have driven the rise of Agentic AI, showing promise for medical reasoning. However, open-ended conversational agents remain prone to two critical failure modes: premature diagnostic handoff and silent clinica…

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