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This paper introduces ThyroidXAgent, an interactive AI system designed to enhance thyroid ultrasound diagnosis by coordinating various diagnostic tools and maintaining an auditable evidence record. Evaluated on a substantial dataset of over 28,000 test cases, the system achieved a mean Dice score of 87.21% for nodule segmentation and an AUROC of 0.9466 for benign-malignant classification, significantly improving physician accuracy and report consistency. Additionally, ThyroidXAgent demonstrated a reduction in segmentation and reporting times, highlighting its efficiency and effectiveness in clinical settings.
Clinician-interactive AI can boost diagnostic accuracy and consistency in thyroid ultrasound reporting while reducing time spent on segmentation and reporting tasks.
Thyroid ultrasound diagnosis requires coordinated lesion localization, measurement, risk stratification and reporting, yet most AI systems address these tasks in isolation and provide limited support for clinical review. We present ThyroidXAgent, a clinician-interactive agentic AI system that coordinates specialized diagnostic tools and stores their outputs as an auditable case-level evidence record. The system was developed using OpenThyroidDB, a multicentre, multitask resource integrating approximately 0.3 million ultrasound images and 24,000 paired reports, and was evaluated on 28,458 non-overlapping test cases, including 8,721 cases from 35 centres in the private NHC-MISD-TUS cohort. Across heterogeneous datasets, ThyroidXAgent achieved a mean Dice score of 87.21 percent for nodule segmentation and a mean AUROC of 0.9466 for benign-malignant classification. The same workflow supported lymph-node metastasis prediction and follicular versus papillary thyroid carcinoma classification, with AUROCs of 0.864 and 0.805, respectively. For report generation, evidence-grounded assembly outperformed multimodal language-model baselines across three cohorts. ThyClinScore, a lesion-level clinical semantic metric introduced here, showed the strongest correlation with a location-aware language-model judge. ThyroidXAgent improved physician classification accuracy, increased report diagnostic consistency from 70.3 percent to 86.2 percent, and reduced segmentation and reporting time by 35.9 percent and 27.4 percent, respectively. These findings support auditable, clinician-correctable agentic AI for thyroid ultrasound diagnosis and reporting.
