Solve the Missing First Step: Can VLMs Standardize Raw Heterogeneous Medical Data?
2026-09-07 12:00Science🔥 42.2 heat score
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Visual Language Models (VLMs) face a key gap in standardizing raw heterogeneous medical data in medical AI applications. The research team constructed the Medical Data Standardization Benchmark (MDS-Bench) containing 1,939 pieces of medical data covering diverse clinical practices, radiological modalities, and catalog layout tasks, to evaluate the models’ ability to recognize source formats, convert images, extract text, and organize structured image-text pairs. Experimental results show that even the best-performing VLM (Gemini 3 Flash) achieved only a 48.6% success rate in end-to-end tasks. The study indicates that standardizing raw medical data is a key bottleneck hindering VLMs from being used for diagnosis in real clinical settings.