MedQ-Bench: Evaluating and Exploring Medical Image Quality Assessment Abilities in MLLMs
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| author | Liu, Jiyao Wei, Jinjie Qu, Wanying Ma, Chenglong Ning, Junzhi Li, Yunheng Chen, Ying Luo, Xinzhe Chen, Pengcheng Gao, Xin Hu, Ming Xu, Huihui Wang, Xin Gao, Shujian Yang, Dingkang Deng, Zhongying Ye, Jin Liu, Lihao He, Junjun Xu, Ningsheng |
| author_facet | Liu, Jiyao Wei, Jinjie Qu, Wanying Ma, Chenglong Ning, Junzhi Li, Yunheng Chen, Ying Luo, Xinzhe Chen, Pengcheng Gao, Xin Hu, Ming Xu, Huihui Wang, Xin Gao, Shujian Yang, Dingkang Deng, Zhongying Ye, Jin Liu, Lihao He, Junjun Xu, Ningsheng |
| contents | Medical Image Quality Assessment (IQA) serves as the first-mile safety gate for clinical AI, yet existing approaches remain constrained by scalar, score-based metrics and fail to reflect the descriptive, human-like reasoning process central to expert evaluation. To address this gap, we introduce MedQ-Bench, a comprehensive benchmark that establishes a perception-reasoning paradigm for language-based evaluation of medical image quality with Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs). MedQ-Bench defines two complementary tasks: (1) MedQ-Perception, which probes low-level perceptual capability via human-curated questions on fundamental visual attributes; and (2) MedQ-Reasoning, encompassing both no-reference and comparison reasoning tasks, aligning model evaluation with human-like reasoning on image quality. The benchmark spans five imaging modalities and over forty quality attributes, totaling 2,600 perceptual queries and 708 reasoning assessments, covering diverse image sources including authentic clinical acquisitions, images with simulated degradations via physics-based reconstructions, and AI-generated images. To evaluate reasoning ability, we propose a multi-dimensional judging protocol that assesses model outputs along four complementary axes. We further conduct rigorous human-AI alignment validation by comparing LLM-based judgement with radiologists. Our evaluation of 14 state-of-the-art MLLMs demonstrates that models exhibit preliminary but unstable perceptual and reasoning skills, with insufficient accuracy for reliable clinical use. These findings highlight the need for targeted optimization of MLLMs in medical IQA. We hope that MedQ-Bench will catalyze further exploration and unlock the untapped potential of MLLMs for medical image quality evaluation. |
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| spellingShingle | MedQ-Bench: Evaluating and Exploring Medical Image Quality Assessment Abilities in MLLMs Liu, Jiyao Wei, Jinjie Qu, Wanying Ma, Chenglong Ning, Junzhi Li, Yunheng Chen, Ying Luo, Xinzhe Chen, Pengcheng Gao, Xin Hu, Ming Xu, Huihui Wang, Xin Gao, Shujian Yang, Dingkang Deng, Zhongying Ye, Jin Liu, Lihao He, Junjun Xu, Ningsheng Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Medical Image Quality Assessment (IQA) serves as the first-mile safety gate for clinical AI, yet existing approaches remain constrained by scalar, score-based metrics and fail to reflect the descriptive, human-like reasoning process central to expert evaluation. To address this gap, we introduce MedQ-Bench, a comprehensive benchmark that establishes a perception-reasoning paradigm for language-based evaluation of medical image quality with Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs). MedQ-Bench defines two complementary tasks: (1) MedQ-Perception, which probes low-level perceptual capability via human-curated questions on fundamental visual attributes; and (2) MedQ-Reasoning, encompassing both no-reference and comparison reasoning tasks, aligning model evaluation with human-like reasoning on image quality. The benchmark spans five imaging modalities and over forty quality attributes, totaling 2,600 perceptual queries and 708 reasoning assessments, covering diverse image sources including authentic clinical acquisitions, images with simulated degradations via physics-based reconstructions, and AI-generated images. To evaluate reasoning ability, we propose a multi-dimensional judging protocol that assesses model outputs along four complementary axes. We further conduct rigorous human-AI alignment validation by comparing LLM-based judgement with radiologists. Our evaluation of 14 state-of-the-art MLLMs demonstrates that models exhibit preliminary but unstable perceptual and reasoning skills, with insufficient accuracy for reliable clinical use. These findings highlight the need for targeted optimization of MLLMs in medical IQA. We hope that MedQ-Bench will catalyze further exploration and unlock the untapped potential of MLLMs for medical image quality evaluation. |
| title | MedQ-Bench: Evaluating and Exploring Medical Image Quality Assessment Abilities in MLLMs |
| topic | Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01691 |