US EditionGoogle Updates MedGemma 1.5 to Read CT Scans, MRI Images and Lab Reports
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Google updates MedGemma 1.5 to read CT scans, MRI images and lab reports
New Delhi: Google has quietly pushed a major update to its open medical AI stack, at a time when hospitals, researchers, and health startups are racing to use artificial intelligence in daily work. The company says AI adoption in healthcare is now moving at twice the pace of the wider economy, and its latest release seems aimed at developers rather than doctors directly. The update centres on MedGemma 1.5, an upgraded version of Google’s open me…
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Google released the AI model "MedGemma 1.5 4B" specialized for medical applications and the speech recognition model "MedASR" on January 13, 2026. MedGemma 1.5 4B is a lightweight model that can run locally and has improved accuracy over the previous generation.
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