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Vibe Medicine: Redefining Biomedical Research Through Human-AI Co-WorkZihao Wu, Steven Xu, Bowen Chen et al.
With the emergence of large language models (LLMs) and AI agent frameworks, the human-AI co-work paradigm known as Vibe Coding is changing how people code, making it more accessible and productive. In scientific research, where workflows are more complex and the burden of specialized labor limits independent researchers and those in low-resource areas, the potential impact is even greater, particularly in biomedicine, which involves heterogeneous data modalities and multi-step analytical pipelines. In this paper, we introduce Vibe Medicine, a co-work paradigm in which clinicians and researchers direct skill-augmented AI agents through natural language to execute complex, multi-step biomedical workflows, while retaining the role of research director who specifies objectives, reviews intermediate results, and makes domain-informed decisions. The enabling infrastructure consists of three layers: capable LLMs, agent frameworks such as OpenClaw and Hermes Agent, and the OpenClaw medical skills collection, which includes more than 1,000 curated skills from multiple open-source repositories. We analyze the architecture and skill categories of this collection across ten biomedical domains, and present case studies covering rare disease diagnosis, drug repurposing, and clinical trial design that demonstrate end-to-end workflows in practice. We also identify the principal risks, such as hallucination, data privacy, and over-reliance, and outline directions toward more reliable, trustworthy, and clinically integrated agent-assisted research that advances research and technological equity and reduces health care resource disparities.
12.4CVApr 18
Conditional Evidence Reconstruction and Decomposition for Interpretable Multimodal DiagnosisShaowen Wan, Yanjun Lv, Lu Zhang et al.
Neurobiological and neurodegenerative diseases are inherently multifactorial, arising from coupled influences spanning genetic susceptibility, brain alterations, and environmental and behavioral factors. Multimodal modeling has therefore been increasingly adopted for disease diagnosis by integrating complementary evidence across data sources. However, in both large-scale cohorts and real-world clinical workflows, modality coverage is often incomplete, making many multimodal models brittle when one or more modalities are unavailable. Existing approaches to incomplete multimodal diagnosis typically rely on group-wise or static priors, which may fail to capture subject-specific cross-modal dependencies; moreover, many models provide limited interpretability into which evidence sources drive the final decision. To address these limitations, we propose Conditional Evidence Reconstruction and Decomposition (CERD), a framework for interpretable multimodal diagnosis with incomplete modalities. CERD first reconstructs missing modality representations conditioned on each subject's observed inputs, then decomposes diagnostic evidence into shared cross-modal corroboration and modality-specific cues via logit-level attribution. Experiments on the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) demonstrate that CERD outperforms competitive baselines under incomplete-modality settings while producing structured and clinically aligned evidence attributions for trustworthy decision support.
CVMar 6
Shifting Adaptation from Weight Space to Memory Space: A Memory-Augmented Agent for Medical Image SegmentationBowen Chen, Qiaohui Gao, Shaowen Wan et al.
Medical image segmentation is fundamental to clinical workflows, yet models trained on a single dataset often fail to generalize across institutions, scanners, or patient populations. While vision foundation models have shown great promise in addressing this challenge, their deployment typically requires task-specific fine-tuning, which introduces substantial communication overhead in federated learning and prevents continuous knowledge evolution during deployment. In this work, we propose a memory-augmented segmentation agent (MemSeg-Agent) that shifts adaptation from weight space to memory space, enabling few-shot learning, federated supervised learning, and test-time adaptation within a unified architecture. MemSeg-Agent conditions a fixed backbone with lightweight static, few-shot, and test-time working memories, which are dynamically composed by an agentic controller. In federated settings, we update compact memory units instead of model parameters, substantially reducing communication overhead. Experiments on four public datasets demonstrate strong performance and robustness to domain shift: Static memory alone matches or surpasses strong supervised baselines with high parameter efficiency, and test-time working memory further improves in-domain and cross-domain performance without fine-tuning. Overall, MemSeg-Agent introduces a new paradigm for scalable and adaptive medical image segmentation in the era of agentic AI.