Open-source AI model can assess biomedical images and text to provide real-time, patient-focused insight

Medical Xpress November 4, 2024
Lehigh University

A picture may be worth a thousand words, but they both have a lot of work to do to catch up to BiomedGPT. A Lehigh University research team has now collaborated with Massachusetts General Hospital in an effort to transform medical text and images into faster disease diagnosis, enhanced medical reporting, improved drug discovery, and more.

Covered recently in the journal Nature Medicine, BiomedGPT is a new type of artificial intelligence (AI) designed to support a wide range of medical and scientific tasks. This new study, conducted in collaboration with multiple institutions, is described in the article as “the first open-source and lightweight vision–language foundation model, designed as a generalist capable of performing various biomedical tasks.”