SlideChat is a multimodal generative artificial intelligence assistant for whole-slide computational pathology across cancer types

Ying Chen Chenglong Ma Qiong-Qiong Li Fang Yan Yi-Rong Chen Tian-Bin Li Jin Ye Ming Hu Yu-Xiang Lin Yan-Jun Li Guo-An Wang Hui-Hui Xu Hui Dong Xiang Wang Xiao-Xiao Xu Yan-Yan Zhou Xia Zhu Sen Yang Xi-Yue Wang Lu Zhang Yu Qiao Rogshan Yu Jun-Jun He Yuan-Feng Ji

Sep 2026 · Nature Cancer · Vol 7, pp. 1454 - 1468 · 2 citations · 58 references

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SlideChat, a multimodal generative artificial intelligence assistant for whole-slide computational pathology across cancer types, outperformed leading baselines in closed-ended accuracy and report-generation Metric for Evaluation of Translation with Explicit Ordering score and received the highest expert ratings across five dimensions in open-ended question answering.

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