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CLEAR Builds Auditable Radiology Foundation Model Based on Clinical Concepts
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Fusion42 · 27 July 2026 · Fusion42 review
CLEAR is a radiology foundation model designed with clinical concept grounding and auditability mechanisms, allowing clinicians and regulators to inspect decision pathways rather than treating the system as a black box. The approach aims to improve interpretability, regulatory compliance, and cross-institutional deployment by anchoring model outputs to clinically meaningful language and evidence.
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If you're building clinical decision support or diagnostic AI, auditability just became table-stakes: CLEAR proves that regulators and hospital procurement teams will now demand concept-grounded reasoning you can show them, not just accuracy scores. Your model's next iteration needs an audit trail or it won't move from research to hospital.
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