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Alibaba's Damo Academy open-sources Damo Radar, an AI for reading abdominal CT scans

Alibaba's research division Damo Academy has released as open source an AI vision-language model called Damo Radar, trained to interpret contrast-enhanced CT scans of 18 abdominal organs and flag around 150 conditions, including malignant tumors. Tested on nearly 40,000 real patient scans, the model reached an average diagnostic accuracy score (AUC) of 0.913 out of a possible 1.0 across 146 clinical findings.

scmp.com · 2026-09-18

Nature commentary urges patient-centered oversight of medical AI systems

A commentary published in Nature argues that governance frameworks for AI in healthcare should place patients, not just clinicians or regulators, at the center of decision-making. The piece calls for structures that give patients meaningful input into how AI tools are developed, deployed and monitored in clinical settings.

nature.com · 2026-09-08