Medical Xpress June 27, 2025
Imagine getting an MRI of your knees and being told you have “mild intrasubstance degeneration of the posterior horn of the medial meniscus.”
Chances are, most of us who didn’t go to medical school are not going to be able to decipher that jargon as anything meaningful or understand what is actionable from that diagnosis. That’s why Stanford radiologists developed a large language model to help address patients’ medical concerns and questions about X-rays, CTs, MRIs, ultrasounds, PET scans, and angiograms.
Using this model, a patient getting a knee MRI could get a more useful and simple explanation: Your knee’s meniscus is a tissue in your knee that serves as a cushion, and, like a pillow, the meniscus has gone...
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