Alibaba Open-Sources Damo Radar Medical AI That Beats 23 of 26 Radiologists on 146 Abdominal Conditions

Alibaba DAMO Academy released Damo Radar, a vision-language model trained on 420,000+ contrast-enhanced abdominal CT exams and 15M anatomy-focused image-text pairs, with weights, code and training framework on GitHub and Hugging Face. On ~40,000 real-world exams it averaged AUC 0.913 across 146 clinical findings and outperformed 23 of 26 expert radiologists in a head-to-head study published in Science.