ArogyaSutra: New AI Framework Brings Medical Reasoning to Indian Languages
Researchers have introduced ArogyaSutra, a multi-agent AI framework designed to improve medical reasoning in Indic languages, addressing a gap in healthcare AI accessibility for rural India. The system uses a large multilingual medical dataset (ArogyaBodha) covering 31 body systems and seven Indian languages alongside English. This development is significant because it aims to provide equitable AI-driven healthcare assistance in regions where patients communicate in native languages and rely on medical images.
ArogyaSutra is a new framework that combines multimodal large language models with specialized tools for medical reasoning across Indian languages. The researchers created ArogyaBodha, a large-scale dataset constructed from eight sources covering 31 body systems, six imaging modalities, and 21 clinical domains in English and seven major Indian languages. The framework uses an actor-critic-based multi-agent approach with dual-memory mechanisms to enable step-wise, reasoning-aware decision-making. Experiments demonstrate improvements in multilingual medical reasoning accuracy across all tested Indic languages. The work addresses a critical gap in healthcare AI, as existing English-centric models struggle to support medical queries in native languages—a particular challenge in rural India where patients often communicate in local languages and depend on multimodal inputs like medical images.
What's missing
The paper does not provide specific quantitative performance metrics (accuracy percentages, benchmarks against baseline models) in the abstract, nor does it detail the clinical validation or real-world deployment status of the framework. Additionally, the abstract does not specify which seven Indian languages are covered or discuss potential limitations in dataset representation across different regions of India.
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- arXiv cs.AICenter
ArogyaSutra: A Multi-Agent Framework for Multimodal Medical Reasoning in Indic Languages
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