Democratizing and accelerating AI-driven pathology research through agentic intelligence

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.20677v1
• Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2026 16:11:50 GMT
• Title: Democratizing and accelerating AI-driven pathology research through agentic intelligence
• Abstract summary: PathLab is an agentic framework that translates research objectives into executable and validated computational pathology.<n>We evaluated PathLab across 12 public datasets spanning four representative task families.<n>In controlled user studies, PathLab substantially reduced the time required to generate executable analytical pipelines.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: Computational pathology has advanced rapidly with the emergence of foundation models, yet widespread adoption remains limited by substantial technical complexity and programming requirements. Here we present PathLab, an autonomous agentic framework that translates natural-language research objectives into executable and validated computational pathology workflows through the structured composition of domain-specific skills and tools. By organizing workflow generation around reusable methodological modules, including data preprocessing, model development, evaluation and interpretation, PathLab enables studies to be specified at the level of scientific intent rather than implementation details. We evaluated PathLab across 12 public datasets spanning four representative task families: region-of-interest classification, whole-slide image classification, segmentation and survival prediction. Across all task categories, PathLab achieved non-inferior performance relative to expert implementations, while consistently enforcing semantic validity of user prompts and proactively rejecting incompatible workflow specifications prior to execution. In controlled user studies, PathLab substantially reduced the time required to generate executable analytical pipelines and enabled domain experts without programming experience to independently design, execute and evaluate computational pathology studies. Together, these results establish PathLab as a reliable interface between biomedical intent and computational execution, enabling computational pathology studies to be designed at the level of scientific questions rather than programming expertise. By lowering technical barriers to advanced AI methodologies, PathLab provides a foundation for the broader democratization of computational pathology.

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