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    Area of Science:

    • Artificial Intelligence
    • Medical Imaging Analysis
    • Radiology

    Background:

    • Chest X-ray (CXR) interpretation is crucial for clinical diagnosis.
    • Existing AI models for CXR analysis struggle with adaptability and complex reasoning.
    • Current LLM-based agents lack reliability assessment and diverse diagnostic pipelines.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To introduce CXRAgent, a novel director-orchestrated, multi-stage agent for improved CXR interpretation.
    • To enhance adaptability, credibility, and reliability in AI-driven CXR analysis.
    • To enable robust multi-step reasoning and collaborative decision-making for diagnostic tasks.

    Main Methods:

    • CXRAgent employs a central director to orchestrate tool invocation, diagnostic planning, and collaborative decision-making.
    • The Evidence-driven Validator (EDV) normalizes and verifies tool outputs, grounding diagnoses with visual evidence.
    • An expert team is assembled and coordinated for adaptive, collaborative reasoning based on task requirements and intermediate findings.

    Main Results:

    • CXRAgent achieved 67.0% accuracy on CheXbench and 75.6% on Medical-CXR-VQA.
    • The agent demonstrated strong performance with reliable visual grounding.
    • A RaTEScore of 0.569 was attained on MIMIC-CXR for report generation.

    Conclusions:

    • CXRAgent offers a reliable and adaptable solution for complex CXR interpretation tasks.
    • The multi-stage, director-orchestrated approach enhances diagnostic credibility through evidence grounding and collaborative reasoning.
    • The proposed agent framework advances the capabilities of AI in medical imaging analysis.