aceAn open vision-language model for diverse medical applications
Artificial intelligence has high potential for impact in healthcare applications, but its training and deployment are challenging due to diverse data, a complex spectrum of possible tasks and important privacy needs. High-performing foundation models that enable data-efficient fine-tuning for diverse downstream tasks can meaningfully accelerate development in this domain. We introduce MedGemma, a collection of medical vision-language foundation models based on Gemma 3. MedGemma demonstrates advanced medical unde…
Medically tuned MedGemma models outperformed base Gemma 3 on out-of-distribution medical tasks and can be fine-tuned more effectively when training data is limited, giving developers a stronger starting point.
The abstract reports benchmark and evaluation results only and describes the models as having potential to accelerate research and development, so real-world clinical outcomes are not demonstrated.
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- Peer-reviewedNature Medicine2026-10-06
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