DeepER-Med: Advancing Deep Evidence-Based Research in Medicine Through Agentic AI

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2604.15456v1
• Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2026 18:17:24 GMT
• Title: DeepER-Med: Advancing Deep Evidence-Based Research in Medicine Through Agentic AI
• Abstract summary: We introduce DeepER-Med, a framework for deep medical research with an agentic AI system.<n>DeepER-Med frames deep medical research as an explicit and inspectable workflow of evidence-based generation.<n>It consistently outperforms widely used production-grade platforms across multiple criteria.<n>Human clinician assessment indicates that DeepER-Med's conclusions align with clinical recommendations in seven cases.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Trustworthiness and transparency are essential for the clinical adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare and biomedical research. Recent deep research systems aim to accelerate evidence-grounded scientific discovery by integrating AI agents with multi-hop information retrieval, reasoning, and synthesis. However, most existing systems lack explicit and inspectable criteria for evidence appraisal, creating a risk of compounding errors and making it difficult for researchers and clinicians to assess the reliability of their outputs. In parallel, current benchmarking approaches rarely evaluate performance on complex, real-world medical questions. Here, we introduce DeepER-Med, a Deep Evidence-based Research framework for Medicine with an agentic AI system. DeepER-Med frames deep medical research as an explicit and inspectable workflow of evidence-based generation, consisting of three modules: research planning, agentic collaboration, and evidence synthesis. To support realistic evaluation, we also present DeepER-MedQA, an evidence-grounded dataset comprising 100 expert-level research questions derived from authentic medical research scenarios and curated by a multidisciplinary panel of 11 biomedical experts. Expert manual evaluation demonstrates that DeepER-Med consistently outperforms widely used production-grade platforms across multiple criteria, including the generation of novel scientific insights. We further demonstrate the practical utility of DeepER-Med through eight real-world clinical cases. Human clinician assessment indicates that DeepER-Med's conclusions align with clinical recommendations in seven cases, highlighting its potential for medical research and decision support.

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