NPCBench: A Clinical Apprenticeship Benchmark for Multimodal Care-Pathway Reasoning in Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma
NPCBench is a benchmark for medical AI in nasopharyngeal carcinoma, spanning guideline knowledge, case planning, longitudinal review, CarePath integration, and open-ended consultation.
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NPCBench is a benchmark for medical AI in nasopharyngeal carcinoma, spanning guideline knowledge, case planning, longitudinal review, CarePath integration, and open-ended consultation. It contains 4,777 component and consultation items and a 100-patient CarePath cohort with 417 scored diagnostic and care tasks. Evaluation checks whether diagnostic and care answers are jointly correct within a care pathway. Across 30 evaluated models, strong individual-task performance did not guarantee jointly correct answers for the same patient, and among 21 multimodal models strict CarePath success reached at most 23%.
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NPCBench contains 4,777 component and consultation items plus a 100-patient CarePath cohort with 417 scored diagnostic and care tasks.
Source: Hugging Face ↗Stored source-based brief · key point 1 · AINewsIQ paraphraseAcross 30 evaluated models, strong performance on individual tasks did not ensure jointly correct diagnostic and care answers for the same patient.
Source: Hugging Face ↗Stored source-based brief · key point 2 · AINewsIQ paraphraseAmong 21 multimodal models, strict CarePath success reaches at most 23%.
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Most medical AI benchmarks score isolated answers. NPCBench tests whether models stay consistent across a patient's course of care, which is closer to real clinical workflow and exposes failures that single-question scores miss.
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