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Abstract - Solve the Missing First Step: Can VLMs Standardize Raw Heterogeneous Medical Data?
As vision-language models (VLMs) are increasingly applied to medical AI, existing benchmarks mainly focus on evaluating their diagnosis ability over given medical images and texts, implicitly assuming that standardized medical images, texts or question-answer pairs are already prepared. However, this assumption does not hold when we apply VLMs in real clinical practice, where medical data is often raw, heterogeneous, and fragmented across different sources. In this paper, we study this missing step, i.e., raw medical data standardization. Specifically, models are given raw dataset folders and evaluated on their ability to identify source formats, convert raw medical images into VLM-compatible visual inputs, extract relevant textual information, and organize the results into structured image-text pairs. To construct this Medical Data Standardization Benchmark (MDS-Bench), we manually annotate 1,939 raw medical data standardization tasks covering diverse clinical practice, radiology modalities, annotation formats, and directory layouts. Extensive experiments show that even the best performing VLMs, i.e., Gemini 3 Flash, achieve only 48.6% end-to-end success rate. Our research highlights raw medical data standardization as a critical bottleneck for medical AI diagnosis in real practice.
解决第一步缺失问题:视觉-语言模型能否标准化异构原始医疗数据? /
Solve the Missing First Step: Can VLMs Standardize Raw Heterogeneous Medical Data?
1️⃣ 一句话总结
本文指出,在真实医疗场景中,视觉-语言模型(VLM)面临的首要问题不是诊断能力,而是如何将来源不同、格式杂乱的原始医疗数据(如扫描图像和文字记录)自动整理成模型可用的标准图片-文本对,实验表明当前最强模型(Gemini 3 Flash)完成这项任务的成功率不到一半,说明数据标准化是AI医疗落地的关键瓶颈。