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Alibaba open-sources AI model that can detect cancer and nearly 150 conditions (https://www.scmp.com)

144 points by yogthos about 22 hours ago | 20 comments | View on ycombinator

plaidfuji about 8 hours ago |

It is 2026. How are we still publishing articles on medical diagnostics data science and using area under the ROC curve as the primary metric of success. ROC-AUC of 0.9 under severe class imbalance (almost always the case in diagnostics) could still mean something like 4/5 predicted diagnoses are wrong (false positives). Precision-Recall curve + mAP or GTFO.

Science article in question: https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.aec6129

Also, the most interesting result here is that the CNN-based feature encoder significantly outperformed a vision transformer encoder backbone…

Zaraif13 about 6 hours ago |

I don't agree with the flak Chinese labs get. If it's really that easy to distill and compete with frontier models, why aren't other countries anywhere near this AI race?

ElProlactin about 17 hours ago |

I much prefer Gemini. It tells me I'm very smart and almost always right.

t0bia_s about 17 hours ago |

I'm wonder when there will be model for predict future. Could be named "Crystal bAill"

westurner about 18 hours ago |

From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44693991 :

> EPS3.9 also had significant anti-tumor effects in the mice with liver cancer and activated anti-tumor immune responses

“A Novel Exopolysaccharide, Highly Prevalent in Marine Spongiibacter, Triggers Pyroptosis to Exhibit Potent Anticancer Effects” (2025) DOI: 10.1096/fj.202500412R https://faseb.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1096/fj.2025004...

"A Gemma model helped discover a new potential cancer therapy pathway" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45604231 :

> eCPMV VNPs + EPS3.9 + [...]

"Scientists are discovering a powerful new way to prevent cancer" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45474404

Notes re: Kidneys not Livers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47460486 ; gh/topic/healthcare-ai

K0balt about 20 hours ago |

Anyone know how many parameters?

westurner about 19 hours ago |

ScholarlyArticle: "Large-scale AI-guided liver malignancy diagnosis: multicenter study and a single-arm trial" (2026) Nature Medicine https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-026-04589-y

Source: https://github.com/alibaba-damo-academy/damo-radar

Model: https://huggingface.co/radar-generalist

cyanydeez about 21 hours ago |

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