MedVA: An End-to-End Neuro-Symbolic Agentic System for Medical Volume Visualization

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2609.14874v1
• Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:48:16 GMT
• Title: MedVA: An End-to-End Neuro-Symbolic Agentic System for Medical Volume Visualization
• Abstract summary: MedVA is an end-to-end neuro-symbolic agentic system for medical volume visualization.<n>It addresses limitations through three complementary agents.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Medical volume visualization requires selecting regions of interest (ROIs) and carefully controlling their relative visual emphasis according to a given clinical intent. Implementing these decisions in conventional workflows demands substantial clinical and visualization expertise and often involves trial-and-error optimization. Recent agentic systems have introduced natural-language interaction and autonomous visualization operations but largely rely on MLLM-based inference throughout the workflow. Although MLLMs encode broad medical knowledge and provide strong reasoning capabilities, such inference may be suboptimal for medical volume visualization, potentially leading to clinically incomplete interpretations of user requests and unreliable ROI identification and visualization optimization. In this work, we present MedVA, an end-to-end neuro-symbolic agentic system for medical volume visualization that addresses these limitations through three complementary agents. The neuro-symbolic intent formulation agent refines MLLM-based interpretations of natural-language requests through symbolic reasoning over established clinical knowledge, which provides more complete, clinically grounded ROI specifications than MLLM-only reasoning. The multi-model ROI identification agent directly identifies semantically specified ROIs in the original volume by leveraging complementary large-scale pretrained medical segmentation models. The objective-driven visualization optimization agent explicitly evaluates ROI visibility and occlusion in the original volume using a volume-based visibility objective. Extensive agent-level and system-level evaluations across diverse medical datasets and interaction scenarios support the effectiveness of the individual agents. A formative user study further indicates high usability and practical value among users with different levels of expertise.

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