arxivcs.AI2026-07-10
SAGEAgent: A Self-Evolving Agent for Cost-Aware Modality Acquisition in Multimodal Survival Prediction
Chongyu Qu, Can Cui, Zhengyi Lu, Junchao Zhu, Tianyuan Yao, Junlin Guo, et al.
Does every cancer patient truly need a complete diagnostic workup for accurate survival prediction? In multimodal clinical oncology, diagnostic modalities follow a clinically mandated order of escalating burden -- from demographics collected at intake to genomic profiling requiri…