Google has launched MedGemma 1.5 and MedASR, two new open-access AI models tailored for healthcare and medical imaging use cases.
Key Details
- 1MedGemma 1.5 is a vision-language model designed to analyze medical images and text.
- 2The model supports tasks such as answering image-based medical questions, drafting radiology reports, and extracting clinical data.
- 3MedGemma 1.5 includes enhanced multimodal reasoning and improved fine-tuning with specialized datasets.
- 4It features full DICOM support when deployed via Google Cloud.
- 5MedGemma 1.5 shows improved accuracy in classifying disease-related findings over its predecessor, MedGemma 1.
- 6MedASR, a healthcare-specific automated speech recognition model, was also released.
Why It Matters
The public release of these advanced models by Google has the potential to accelerate innovation in medical imaging AI, radiology report generation, and research across the field by providing open access to cutting-edge tools.
Source
Radiology Business
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