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Main Authors: Ren, Ruiyang, Wang, Yuhao, Liang, Yunsen, Luo, Lan, Liu, Jing, Wang, Haifeng, Feng, Cong, Zhang, Yinan, Miao, Chunyan, Wen, Ji-Rong, Zhao, Wayne Xin
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Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.10677
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author Ren, Ruiyang
Wang, Yuhao
Liang, Yunsen
Luo, Lan
Liu, Jing
Wang, Haifeng
Feng, Cong
Zhang, Yinan
Miao, Chunyan
Wen, Ji-Rong
Zhao, Wayne Xin
author_facet Ren, Ruiyang
Wang, Yuhao
Liang, Yunsen
Luo, Lan
Liu, Jing
Wang, Haifeng
Feng, Cong
Zhang, Yinan
Miao, Chunyan
Wen, Ji-Rong
Zhao, Wayne Xin
contents Clinical diagnosis is a complex cognitive process, grounded in dynamic cue acquisition and continuous expertise accumulation. Yet most current artificial intelligence (AI) systems are misaligned with this reality, treating diagnosis as single-pass retrospective prediction while lacking auditable mechanisms for governed improvement. We developed DxEvolve, a self-evolving diagnostic agent that bridges these gaps through an interactive deep clinical research workflow. The framework autonomously requisitions examinations and continually externalizes clinical experience from increasing encounter exposure as diagnostic cognition primitives. On the MIMIC-CDM benchmark, DxEvolve improved diagnostic accuracy by 11.2% on average over backbone models and reached 90.4% on a reader-study subset, comparable to the clinician reference (88.8%). DxEvolve improved accuracy on an independent external cohort by 10.2% (categories covered by the source cohort) and 17.1% (uncovered categories) compared to the competitive method. By transforming experience into a governable learning asset, DxEvolve supports an accountable pathway for the continual evolution of clinical AI.
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spellingShingle Emulating Clinician Cognition via Self-Evolving Deep Clinical Research
Ren, Ruiyang
Wang, Yuhao
Liang, Yunsen
Luo, Lan
Liu, Jing
Wang, Haifeng
Feng, Cong
Zhang, Yinan
Miao, Chunyan
Wen, Ji-Rong
Zhao, Wayne Xin
Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
Clinical diagnosis is a complex cognitive process, grounded in dynamic cue acquisition and continuous expertise accumulation. Yet most current artificial intelligence (AI) systems are misaligned with this reality, treating diagnosis as single-pass retrospective prediction while lacking auditable mechanisms for governed improvement. We developed DxEvolve, a self-evolving diagnostic agent that bridges these gaps through an interactive deep clinical research workflow. The framework autonomously requisitions examinations and continually externalizes clinical experience from increasing encounter exposure as diagnostic cognition primitives. On the MIMIC-CDM benchmark, DxEvolve improved diagnostic accuracy by 11.2% on average over backbone models and reached 90.4% on a reader-study subset, comparable to the clinician reference (88.8%). DxEvolve improved accuracy on an independent external cohort by 10.2% (categories covered by the source cohort) and 17.1% (uncovered categories) compared to the competitive method. By transforming experience into a governable learning asset, DxEvolve supports an accountable pathway for the continual evolution of clinical AI.
title Emulating Clinician Cognition via Self-Evolving Deep Clinical Research
topic Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.10677