Abstract:Neuro-oncology decisions require coordinated interpretation of serial MRI, pathology, molecular markers, treatment history, performance status, and evolving guidelines. We present TumorBoard, a multi-agent decision-support system built around a shared longitudinal case state and an auditable claim-evidence ledger. Specialist agents for radiology, neuropathology, molecular diagnosis, guidelines, and therapy planning produce atomic claims with provenance. An adversarial critic exposes contradictions, and a safety governor releases, qualifies, or defers recommendations according to evidence sufficiency and temporal validity. On a 360-case hidden benchmark at a matched token budget, TumorBoard achieved an action F1 of 0.772 and evidence entailment of 0.914. It exceeded the strongest typed-council baseline by 3.1 percentage points (95% CI: 1.6 to 4.7, adjusted p = 0.0012), while recommendation-to-evidence coverage reached 0.927. Under evidence deletion, the system deferred 84.2% of unsafe cases and limited harmful recommendations to 5.8%. The safety governor reduced harmful release by 7.8 percentage points at a false-deferral cost of 4.3 percentage points. Ablation studies of the ledger, critic, and governor produced the predicted failure patterns, establishing structured coordination as the source of the measured multi-agent advantage.
Abstract:Multimodal medical large language models remain structurally weak for neuro-oncology because volumetric evidence is compressed into generic visual tokens and diagnostic conclusions often lack an auditable link to MRI regions. We present NeuroMosaic, a 3D multimodal language model that converts multi-sequence brain MRI into anatomy-indexed regional tokens, aligns them with clinical narrative and molecular concepts, and generates evidence-linked outputs. The architecture combines a multi-resolution volumetric tokenizer, a neuroanatomical graph router, a molecular concept memory, and selective risk control. Across four glioma cohorts, NeuroMosaic achieved an internal subtype macro-F1 of 0.827 and external macro-F1 values of 0.784, 0.761, and 0.742. On UPenn-GBM, it improved over the strongest matched-input baseline by 3.6 percentage points (95% CI: 1.8 to 5.4, adjusted p = 0.0018), with IDH, 1p/19q, and MGMT AUROCs of 0.918, 0.861, and 0.781. Evidence pointing accuracy reached 0.703, and targeted evidence deletion reduced correct-answer probability by 0.187, compared with 0.046 for random deletion. These results establish anatomy-indexed routing as a measurable mechanism for accurate, grounded, and calibrated volumetric medical-language reasoning.