Feasibility of Multimodal Artificial Intelligence Using GPT-4 Vision for the Classification of Middle Ear Disease: Qualitative Study and Validation

Masao Noda   ^{1 *} , MBA, MD, PhD ;   Hidekane Yoshimura   ^{2 *} , MD, PhD ;   Takuya Okubo   ² , MD ;   Ryota Koshu   ¹ , MD ;   Yuki Uchiyama   ² , MD ;   Akihiro Nomura   ³ , MD, PhD ;   Makoto Ito   ¹ , MD, PhD ;   Yutaka Takumi   ² , MD, PhD

¹ Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Jichi Medical University, Shimotsuke, Japan

² Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, Shinshu University, Matsumoto, Japan

³ College of Transdisciplinary Sciences for Innovation, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan

*these authors contributed equally