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Towards Expert-level Medical AI for Real-time Video Consultations

L5 · ResearcherResearcharXiv· 8/10/2026

Presents groundbreaking research demonstrating expert-level medical AI capabilities using real-time multimodal perception.

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Google's AMIE (Video) AI system, built on Gemini, achieved expert-level parity with primary care physicians in a randomized clinical video consultation study.

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Audio-visual interaction is the standard for patient-physician consultations, enabling natural communication and effective assessment of illness through non-verbal cues. While text-based AI has shown promise, it discards essential perceptual dimensions and limits patients who cannot articulate symptoms in writing. Early efforts to extend medical AI to audio-visual interaction have demonstrated feasibility but not reached clinician-level performance. Here, we provide the first demonstration of ex

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