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MedPAO-Assist: Edge-Deployable, Modality-Aware Agentic AI for Radiology Report Structuring

Researchers posted arXiv paper 2610.26913v1 describing MedPAO-Assist, an edge-deployable agentic framework that turns radiologist dictation and voice commands into structured radiology reports using only about 3.3 GB peak RAM and averaging roughly 31 seconds end-to-end on a standard laptop CPU. The system runs its full pipeline on a Small Language Model in the 0.6B-parameter range across an Extract-Ground-Generate architecture covering concept extraction, SNOMED-CT grounding and structured report generation, with a speech-driven human-in-the-loop correction phase, and supports four imaging modalities: Chest X-ray, Chest CT, Abdomen CT and Brain MRI. The authors report per-stage evaluations of concept extraction, ontology grounding and concept categorization plus hardware profiling, arguing the CPU-only, offline design removes the cloud and high-end GPU requirements that have bottlenecked privacy-sensitive radiology adoption.

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arXiv:2610.26913v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The adoption of Large Language Models for radiology report structuring has been largely dominated by either proprietary cloud-based models or large open models requiring high-end GPUs for deployment, which is a critical bottleneck for clinical adoption in radiology workflows that demand data privacy and offline operation. To address this, we present MedPAO-Assist, an edge-deployable agentic framework that generates structured radiology reports directly from radiologist dictation and voice commands, requiring only $\approx3.3$ GB peak RAM and achieving an average end-to-end latency of $\approx31$ seconds on a standard laptop CPU through an asynchronous, multi-threaded execution pipeline. The system currently supports four major imaging modalities -- Chest X-ray, Chest CT, Abdomen CT, and Brain MRI. To our knowledge, it is among the earliest agentic systems to run its entire pipeline with a Small Language Model (SLM) in the 0.6B-parameter range. This multi-agent architecture, built around an Extract-Ground-Generate paradigm, performs concept extraction, SNOMED-CT grounding, and structured report generation, followed by a speech-driven human-in-the-loop correction phase, together forming a fully "no-touch" reporting workflow that requires no keyboard input, external API calls, or internet connectivity. We evaluate each pipeline stage individually -- concept extraction, ontology grounding, and concept categorization and report hardware profiling results demonstrating the system's feasibility for real-time, CPU-only clinical deployment.

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