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NPCBench: A Clinical Apprenticeship Benchmark for Multimodal Care-Pathway Reasoning in Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma
arXiv cs.AI · Published · 3 min read
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- What happened
- NPCBench is a clinical benchmark with 4,777 items testing whether AI models can reason through nasopharyngeal carcinoma care pathways using multimodal evidence over time.
- Why it matters
- Matters for engineers building medical AI systems that must integrate images, guidelines, and patient history into coherent diagnostic and treatment decisions.
- Watch out
- Top multimodal models achieved only 23% success on full care pathways despite strong individual task performance, revealing a composition gap in clinical reasoning.
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