NPCBench: A Clinical Apprenticeship Benchmark for Multimodal Care-Pathway Reasoning in Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma

A benchmark called NPCBench has been introduced as a clinical apprenticeship benchmark for multimodal care-pathway reasoning in nasopharyngeal carcinoma, targeting a gap the authors say existing medical benchmarks leave open. Current medical benchmarks typically break clinical competence into isolated factual questions, single-image tasks, or static case vignettes, which score individual answers but reveal less about whether a model can integrate subspecialty knowledge with multimodal evidence and track a patient's care pathway.

Current medical benchmarks typically break down clinical competence into isolated factual questions, single-image tasks, or static case vignettes. These tests score individual answers, but reveal less about whether a model can integrate subspecialty knowledge with multimodal evidence and track a pat