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ReviewMethods and protocols2026

A Review of Multi-Agent AI Systems for Biological and Clinical Data Analysis.

Jackson Spieser, Ali Balapour, Jarek Meller, Krushna C Patra, Behrouz Shamsaei

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Review in Methods and protocols, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Jackson SpieserCollege of Medicine Cincinnati, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45267, USA.ORCID 0009-0009-5789-2605
Ali BalapourSchool of Computing and Analytics, Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, KY 41099, USA.
Jarek MellerDepartment of Biostatistics, Health Informatics and Data Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45267, USA.
Krushna C PatraDepartment of Cancer Biology, College of Medicine, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45267, USA.
Behrouz ShamsaeiDepartment of Biostatistics, Health Informatics and Data Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45267, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0672-5382

Funding

LCenter for Clinical and Translational Science and TrainingUL1TR001425 · NCATS · UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI · PI MEINZEN-DERR, JAREEN, STRAWN, JEFFREY ROBERT · 2015 to 2024
$37.5M
NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR001425NIH Common Fund 5R37CA272854-04
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This review evaluates the emerging paradigm of multi-agent systems (MASs) for biomedical and clinical data analysis, focusing on their ability to overcome the reasoning and reliability limitations of standalone large language models (LLMs). We synthesize findings from recent architectural frameworks, specifically LangGraph, CrewAI, and the Model Context Protocol (MCP), to examine how specialized agent teams divide labor, utilize precision tools, and cross-verify outputs. We find that MAS architectures yield significant performance gains in various domains: recent implementations improved oncology decision-making accuracy from 30.3% to 87.2% and reached a peak of 93.2% accuracy on USMLE-style benchmarks through simulated clinical evolution. In clinical trial matching, multi-agent frameworks achieved 87.3% accuracy and enhanced clinician screening efficiency by 42.6% (

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AI safetyautonomous agentsbiomedical AIclinical decision supportcollaborative intelligencelarge language models (LLMs)multi-agent systemsorchestration frameworks

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PMID41874150
PMCPMC13010680

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