SAGEAgent: A Self-Evolving Agent for Cost-Aware Modality Acquisition in Multimodal Survival Prediction
In multimodal clinical oncology, diagnostic modalities follow a clinically mandated order of escalating burden -- from demographics collected at intake to genomic profiling requiring specialized tissue analysis. Current multimodal survival methods either assume all modalities are available or passively handle missing data, but none actively reason about whether acquiring the next modality is justified for a given patient along this ordered workflow. We formulate this as a sequential decision problem and propose SAGEAgent (Sequential Acquisition Guided by Experience), a self-evolving LLM-based clinical agent that decides which diagnostic modalities to acquire for each patient, balancing predictive accuracy against clinical invasiveness.
- ▪In multimodal clinical oncology, diagnostic modalities follow a clinically mandated order of escalating burden -- from demographics collected at intake to genomic profiling requiring specialized tissue analysis.
- ▪Current multimodal survival methods either assume all modalities are available or passively handle missing data, but none actively reason about whether acquiring the next modality is justified for a given patient along this ordered workflow
- ▪We formulate this as a sequential decision problem and propose SAGEAgent (Sequential Acquisition Guided by Experience), a self-evolving LLM-based clinical agent that decides which diagnostic modalities to acquire for each patient, balancing
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Computer Science > Artificial Intelligence arXiv:2607.09521 (cs) [Submitted on 10 Jul 2026] Title:SAGEAgent: A Self-Evolving Agent for Cost-Aware Modality Acquisition in Multimodal Survival Prediction Authors:Chongyu Qu, Can Cui, Zhengyi Lu, Junchao Zhu, Tianyuan Yao, Junlin Guo, Juming Xiong, Yanfan Zhu, Yuechen Yang, Bennett A. Landman, Yuankai Huo View a PDF of the paper titled SAGEAgent: A Self-Evolving Agent for Cost-Aware Modality Acquisition in Multimodal Survival Prediction, by Chongyu Qu and 10 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:Does every cancer patient truly need a complete diagnostic workup for accurate survival prediction? In multimodal clinical oncology, diagnostic modalities follow a clinically mandated order of escalating burden -- from demographics…
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