| --- |
| license: other |
| language: |
| - en |
| tags: |
| - clinical |
| - ehr |
| - medical |
| - multimodal |
| - benchmark |
| pretty_name: ClinSeek-Bench |
| size_categories: |
| - 1K<n<10K |
| configs: |
| - config_name: text_tasks |
| data_files: "ClinSeek-Bench_text.json" |
| - config_name: multimodal_tasks |
| data_files: "ClinSeek-Bench_multimodal.jsonl" |
| --- |
| |
| # ClinSeek-Bench |
|
|
| ClinSeek-Bench is the evaluation suite introduced in |
| [ClinSeekAgent: Automating Multimodal Evidence Seeking for Agentic Clinical |
| Reasoning](https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.20176). It evaluates clinical reasoning |
| under two paired settings with the same task definitions and answer labels: |
|
|
| - **Curated Input**: the model answers from the evidence package provided by |
| the source benchmark. |
| - **Automated Evidence-Seeking**: the curated context is removed, and the model |
| must retrieve evidence from raw clinical data using ClinSeekAgent tools. |
|
|
| This Hugging Face dataset release provides the metadata needed to reconstruct |
| ClinSeek-Bench. It is not a fully materialized benchmark package. |
|
|
| To rebuild the full benchmark locally from this released metadata, see |
| [Reconstructing The Full Benchmark](#reconstructing-the-full-benchmark). |
|
|
| ## Why This Release Contains Metadata Only |
|
|
| ClinSeek-Bench is built from credentialed clinical datasets, including MIMIC-IV, |
| MIMIC-IV-Note, MIMIC-IV-ED, MIMIC-CXR, MIMIC-CXR-JPG, EHRXQA, and MedMod. These |
| sources contain protected clinical information and must be obtained under each |
| user's own credentialed access and data-use agreements. |
|
|
| For privacy and licensing reasons, this repository does **not** redistribute: |
|
|
| - raw MIMIC tables; |
| - patient-level SQLite databases; |
| - chest X-ray image files; |
| - radiology report text; |
| - experiment logs or model trajectories. |
|
|
| Instead, this repository releases the metadata needed to rebuild the complete |
| runtime benchmark locally from the official source datasets. |
|
|
| ## Released Metadata |
|
|
| | Split | Released metadata | Rows | Modality | What it contains | What it excludes | |
| | --- | --- | ---: | --- | --- | --- | |
| | Text-only | `ClinSeek-Bench_text.json` | 1,800 | EHR | `qid`, `subject_id`, `hadm_id`, prediction-time metadata, task names, questions, labels, candidates | patient SQLite DBs and raw MIMIC rows | |
| | Multimodal | `ClinSeek-Bench_multimodal.jsonl` | 989 | EHR + CXR | released `qid`s, questions, normalized labels, patient/time metadata, CXR image references, report references | CXR JPG files, report text, rendered EHR contexts, patient SQLite DBs | |
|
|
| The metadata files are the source of truth for reconstruction and evaluation. |
| During local reconstruction, the ClinSeekAgent scripts materialize protected |
| runtime assets such as patient databases, rendered EHR contexts, linked CXR |
| files, and radiology reports from the official source datasets. |
|
|
| ## Benchmark Composition |
|
|
| ### Text-only EHR tasks |
|
|
| The text-only split is derived from EHR-Bench in |
| [EHR-R1](https://github.com/MAGIC-AI4Med/EHR-R1). It contains 45 EHR subtasks |
| covering risk-prediction and decision-making scenarios. We sample 40 examples |
| per subtask, resulting in 1,800 text-only examples. The released metadata |
| contains 1,563 unique patients. |
|
|
| ### Multimodal tasks |
|
|
| The multimodal split adapts EHRXQA and MedMod, both grounded in MIMIC-IV EHRs |
| and MIMIC-CXR chest radiographs. It contains 989 image-grounded examples: |
|
|
| - 497 EHRXQA-derived CXR question-answering rows; |
| - 492 MedMod-derived ICU/CXR prediction rows. |
|
|
| The six multimodal task groups are CXR finding presence, CXR finding |
| enumeration, CXR temporal change comparison, 24-hour decompensation prediction, |
| in-hospital mortality prediction, and phenotype prediction. |
|
|
| ## Experimental Results |
|
|
| We evaluate ClinSeekAgent under the **Automated Evidence-Seeking** setting and |
| compare it with the paired **Curated Input** setting. All numbers below are F1 |
| scores in percentage points. `Δ` is Automated Evidence-Seeking minus |
| Curated Input. |
|
|
| ### Text-only EHR tasks |
|
|
| <table> |
| <thead> |
| <tr> |
| <th rowspan="2">Model</th> |
| <th colspan="3">Risk Prediction</th> |
| <th colspan="3">Decision Making</th> |
| <th colspan="3">Overall</th> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <th>ClinSeekAgent</th> |
| <th>Curated<br>Input</th> |
| <th>Δ</th> |
| <th>ClinSeekAgent</th> |
| <th>Curated<br>Input</th> |
| <th>Δ</th> |
| <th>ClinSeekAgent</th> |
| <th>Curated<br>Input</th> |
| <th>Δ</th> |
| </tr> |
| </thead> |
| <tbody> |
| <tr><td colspan="10"><em>Closed-source models</em></td></tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td>Claude Opus 4.6</td> |
| <td align="right">90.7</td><td align="right">81.0</td><td align="right"><strong>+9.7</strong></td> |
| <td align="right">44.8</td><td align="right">45.9</td><td align="right"><strong>-1.1</strong></td> |
| <td align="right">63.2</td><td align="right">60.0</td><td align="right"><strong>+3.2</strong></td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td>Claude Sonnet 4.6</td> |
| <td align="right">90.0</td><td align="right">77.5</td><td align="right"><strong>+12.5</strong></td> |
| <td align="right">35.9</td><td align="right">42.6</td><td align="right"><strong>-6.7</strong></td> |
| <td align="right">57.5</td><td align="right">56.6</td><td align="right"><strong>+0.9</strong></td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr><td colspan="10"><em>Open-source models</em></td></tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td>EHR-R1-72B</td> |
| <td align="right">--</td><td align="right">67.1</td><td align="right">--</td> |
| <td align="right">--</td><td align="right">45.2</td><td align="right">--</td> |
| <td align="right">--</td><td align="right">53.9</td><td align="right">--</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td>GLM-4.7</td> |
| <td align="right">75.1</td><td align="right">70.4</td><td align="right"><strong>+4.7</strong></td> |
| <td align="right">23.1</td><td align="right">38.6</td><td align="right"><strong>-15.5</strong></td> |
| <td align="right">43.9</td><td align="right">51.3</td><td align="right"><strong>-7.4</strong></td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td>Qwen3.5-35B-A3B</td> |
| <td align="right">84.4</td><td align="right">73.6</td><td align="right"><strong>+10.8</strong></td> |
| <td align="right">22.0</td><td align="right">29.0</td><td align="right"><strong>-7.0</strong></td> |
| <td align="right">47.0</td><td align="right">46.8</td><td align="right"><strong>+0.1</strong></td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td>Gemma-4-26B-A4B-it</td> |
| <td align="right">83.5</td><td align="right">78.6</td><td align="right"><strong>+4.9</strong></td> |
| <td align="right">17.3</td><td align="right">27.8</td><td align="right"><strong>-10.5</strong></td> |
| <td align="right">43.8</td><td align="right">48.1</td><td align="right"><strong>-4.3</strong></td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td>MiniMax M2.5</td> |
| <td align="right">86.7</td><td align="right">68.4</td><td align="right"><strong>+18.3</strong></td> |
| <td align="right">21.0</td><td align="right">26.3</td><td align="right"><strong>-5.3</strong></td> |
| <td align="right">47.3</td><td align="right">43.1</td><td align="right"><strong>+4.2</strong></td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td>Kimi K2.5</td> |
| <td align="right">65.0</td><td align="right">79.9</td><td align="right"><strong>-14.9</strong></td> |
| <td align="right">19.8</td><td align="right">28.8</td><td align="right"><strong>-9.0</strong></td> |
| <td align="right">37.9</td><td align="right">49.2</td><td align="right"><strong>-11.3</strong></td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td>Qwen3-VL-235B</td> |
| <td align="right">67.9</td><td align="right">71.0</td><td align="right"><strong>-3.1</strong></td> |
| <td align="right">19.1</td><td align="right">33.4</td><td align="right"><strong>-14.3</strong></td> |
| <td align="right">38.6</td><td align="right">48.4</td><td align="right"><strong>-9.8</strong></td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td>gpt-oss-120b</td> |
| <td align="right">75.4</td><td align="right">74.0</td><td align="right"><strong>+1.4</strong></td> |
| <td align="right">16.6</td><td align="right">22.3</td><td align="right"><strong>-5.7</strong></td> |
| <td align="right">40.1</td><td align="right">43.0</td><td align="right"><strong>-2.9</strong></td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td>MedGemma-27B-it</td> |
| <td align="right">--</td><td align="right">65.0</td><td align="right">--</td> |
| <td align="right">--</td><td align="right">25.2</td><td align="right">--</td> |
| <td align="right">--</td><td align="right">41.1</td><td align="right">--</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td>EHR-R1-8B</td> |
| <td align="right">--</td><td align="right">64.0</td><td align="right">--</td> |
| <td align="right">--</td><td align="right">23.4</td><td align="right">--</td> |
| <td align="right">--</td><td align="right">39.7</td><td align="right">--</td> |
| </tr> |
| </tbody> |
| </table> |
| |
| ### Multimodal tasks |
|
|
| <table> |
| <thead> |
| <tr> |
| <th>Model</th> |
| <th>Method</th> |
| <th>CXR:<br>finding<br>presence</th> |
| <th>CXR:<br>finding<br>enumeration</th> |
| <th>CXR:<br>change<br>comparison</th> |
| <th>Mortality<br>(24 h)</th> |
| <th>Inpatient<br>mortality</th> |
| <th>Phenotype<br>(CCS groups)</th> |
| <th>Multimodal<br>overall</th> |
| </tr> |
| </thead> |
| <tbody> |
| <tr> |
| <td rowspan="3">Claude Opus 4.6</td> |
| <td>ClinSeekAgent</td> |
| <td align="right">78.3</td><td align="right">43.6</td><td align="right">54.8</td><td align="right">92.0</td><td align="right">74.4</td><td align="right">45.5</td><td align="right"><strong>62.6</strong></td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td>Curated Input</td> |
| <td align="right">55.2</td><td align="right">31.6</td><td align="right">38.0</td><td align="right">93.6</td><td align="right">69.6</td><td align="right">11.5</td><td align="right"><strong>47.5</strong></td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td>Δ</td> |
| <td align="right"><strong>+23.2</strong></td><td align="right"><strong>+12.0</strong></td><td align="right"><strong>+16.8</strong></td><td align="right"><strong>-1.6</strong></td><td align="right"><strong>+4.8</strong></td><td align="right"><strong>+34.0</strong></td><td align="right"><strong>+15.1</strong></td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td rowspan="3">Claude Sonnet 4.6</td> |
| <td>ClinSeekAgent</td> |
| <td align="right">79.5</td><td align="right">41.3</td><td align="right">51.5</td><td align="right">64.0</td><td align="right">68.8</td><td align="right">26.1</td><td align="right"><strong>54.9</strong></td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td>Curated Input</td> |
| <td align="right">64.8</td><td align="right">29.7</td><td align="right">34.7</td><td align="right">90.4</td><td align="right">70.4</td><td align="right">13.8</td><td align="right"><strong>48.0</strong></td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td>Δ</td> |
| <td align="right"><strong>+14.7</strong></td><td align="right"><strong>+11.6</strong></td><td align="right"><strong>+16.8</strong></td><td align="right"><strong>-26.4</strong></td><td align="right"><strong>-1.6</strong></td><td align="right"><strong>+12.3</strong></td><td align="right"><strong>+6.9</strong></td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td rowspan="3">Qwen3.5-35B-A3B</td> |
| <td>ClinSeekAgent</td> |
| <td align="right">73.8</td><td align="right">34.2</td><td align="right">44.4</td><td align="right">91.2</td><td align="right">74.4</td><td align="right">0.3</td><td align="right"><strong>51.7</strong></td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td>Curated Input</td> |
| <td align="right">59.1</td><td align="right">34.1</td><td align="right">30.7</td><td align="right">90.4</td><td align="right">81.6</td><td align="right">0.5</td><td align="right"><strong>46.9</strong></td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td>Δ</td> |
| <td align="right"><strong>+14.7</strong></td><td align="right"><strong>+0.2</strong></td><td align="right"><strong>+13.7</strong></td><td align="right"><strong>+0.8</strong></td><td align="right"><strong>-7.2</strong></td><td align="right"><strong>-0.2</strong></td><td align="right"><strong>+4.8</strong></td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td rowspan="3">Kimi K2.5</td> |
| <td>ClinSeekAgent</td> |
| <td align="right">61.4</td><td align="right">34.9</td><td align="right">43.8</td><td align="right">71.2</td><td align="right">62.4</td><td align="right">12.3</td><td align="right"><strong>46.9</strong></td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td>Curated Input</td> |
| <td align="right">56.3</td><td align="right">24.7</td><td align="right">35.0</td><td align="right">91.2</td><td align="right">87.2</td><td align="right">12.4</td><td align="right"><strong>47.5</strong></td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td>Δ</td> |
| <td align="right"><strong>+5.1</strong></td><td align="right"><strong>+10.2</strong></td><td align="right"><strong>+8.8</strong></td><td align="right"><strong>-20.0</strong></td><td align="right"><strong>-24.8</strong></td><td align="right"><strong>-0.1</strong></td><td align="right"><strong>-0.6</strong></td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td rowspan="3">Qwen3-VL-235B</td> |
| <td>ClinSeekAgent</td> |
| <td align="right">70.4</td><td align="right">35.7</td><td align="right">47.8</td><td align="right">79.2</td><td align="right">61.6</td><td align="right">6.0</td><td align="right"><strong>49.8</strong></td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td>Curated Input</td> |
| <td align="right">60.3</td><td align="right">21.1</td><td align="right">32.8</td><td align="right">87.2</td><td align="right">72.8</td><td align="right">6.6</td><td align="right"><strong>43.9</strong></td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td>Δ</td> |
| <td align="right"><strong>+10.1</strong></td><td align="right"><strong>+14.6</strong></td><td align="right"><strong>+15.0</strong></td><td align="right"><strong>-8.0</strong></td><td align="right"><strong>-11.2</strong></td><td align="right"><strong>-0.6</strong></td><td align="right"><strong>+5.9</strong></td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td rowspan="3">Gemma-4-26B-A4B-it</td> |
| <td>ClinSeekAgent</td> |
| <td align="right">78.9</td><td align="right">21.6</td><td align="right">38.4</td><td align="right">65.6</td><td align="right">71.2</td><td align="right">0.4</td><td align="right"><strong>44.9</strong></td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td>Curated Input</td> |
| <td align="right">56.9</td><td align="right">21.4</td><td align="right">25.4</td><td align="right">79.2</td><td align="right">60.0</td><td align="right">0.0</td><td align="right"><strong>38.2</strong></td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td>Δ</td> |
| <td align="right"><strong>+22.0</strong></td><td align="right"><strong>+0.2</strong></td><td align="right"><strong>+13.0</strong></td><td align="right"><strong>-13.6</strong></td><td align="right"><strong>+11.2</strong></td><td align="right"><strong>+0.4</strong></td><td align="right"><strong>+6.7</strong></td> |
| </tr> |
| </tbody> |
| </table> |
| |
| These results show that active evidence acquisition is most helpful when the |
| answer depends on sparse, longitudinal, or multimodal signals that may be missed |
| by fixed curated inputs. The gains are especially clear for risk prediction in |
| the text-only split and for CXR-related multimodal tasks, where models can |
| combine EHR retrieval, image-tool outputs, and task-relevant medical knowledge. |
|
|
| ## Files |
|
|
| ```text |
| ClinSeek-Bench/ |
| +-- README.md |
| +-- ClinSeek-Bench_text.json |
| +-- ClinSeek-Bench_multimodal.jsonl |
| ``` |
|
|
| The paths above are the released metadata paths in this dataset repository. If |
| you clone this dataset next to the ClinSeekAgent repository, reference the |
| metadata as: |
|
|
| ```text |
| ClinSeek-Bench/ClinSeek-Bench_text.json |
| ClinSeek-Bench/ClinSeek-Bench_multimodal.jsonl |
| ``` |
|
|
| If you use ClinSeekAgent's default local data layout, you may copy or symlink |
| the text manifest to `data/text/ClinSeek-Bench_text.json`. That location is a |
| local workspace convenience, not a released metadata path. |
|
|
| ## Reconstructing The Full Benchmark |
|
|
| Reconstruction code and detailed instructions are maintained in the |
| ClinSeekAgent GitHub repository: |
|
|
| - Code: https://github.com/UCSC-VLAA/ClinSeekAgent |
| - Text data preparation: https://github.com/UCSC-VLAA/ClinSeekAgent/blob/main/docs/ClinSeek-Bench_text_data_prepare.md |
| - Automated Evidence-Seeking text evaluation: https://github.com/UCSC-VLAA/ClinSeekAgent/blob/main/docs/ClinSeek-Bench_text_evaluation.md |
| - Curated Input text evaluation: https://github.com/UCSC-VLAA/ClinSeekAgent/blob/main/docs/ClinSeek-Bench_text_curated_input_evaluation.md |
| - Multimodal data preparation: https://github.com/UCSC-VLAA/ClinSeekAgent/blob/main/docs/ClinSeek-Bench_multimodal_data_prepare.md |
|
|
| At a high level: |
|
|
| ```bash |
| git clone https://huggingface.co/datasets/UCSC-VLAA/ClinSeek-Bench |
| git clone https://github.com/UCSC-VLAA/ClinSeekAgent.git |
| ``` |
|
|
| Then obtain the required official source datasets, prepare local paths, and |
| follow the text and multimodal reconstruction guides above. |
|
|
| ## Required Source Data |
|
|
| Download clinical source data only from official sources under your own |
| credentialed access and data-use agreements. |
|
|
| | Dataset or source | Official source | Used for | |
| | --- | --- | --- | |
| | MIMIC-IV | https://physionet.org/content/mimiciv/ | structured EHR tables | |
| | MIMIC-IV-Note | https://physionet.org/content/mimic-iv-note/ | discharge and radiology notes | |
| | MIMIC-IV-ED | https://physionet.org/content/mimic-iv-ed/ | emergency department tables | |
| | MIMIC-CXR | https://physionet.org/content/mimic-cxr/ | CXR metadata and report text | |
| | MIMIC-CXR-JPG | https://physionet.org/content/mimic-cxr-jpg/ | linked chest X-ray JPG files | |
| | EHRXQA | https://physionet.org/content/ehrxqa/ | source-aligned CXR question-answering rows | |
| | MedMod | https://github.com/nyuad-cai/MedMod | source-aligned ICU/CXR prediction rows | |
| | EHR-R1 / EHR-Bench | https://github.com/MAGIC-AI4Med/EHR-R1 | source benchmark for text-only EHR tasks | |
|
|
| ## Validation |
|
|
| After cloning ClinSeekAgent, validate the released multimodal metadata without |
| requiring protected assets: |
|
|
| ```bash |
| python ClinSeekAgent/scripts/data_build/validate_multimodal_release.py \ |
| --bench-root ClinSeek-Bench \ |
| --input ClinSeek-Bench/ClinSeek-Bench_multimodal.jsonl \ |
| --manifest-only |
| ``` |
|
|
| Expected released metadata counts: |
|
|
| - 1,800 text-only rows; |
| - 45 text-only EHR subtasks; |
| - 1,563 unique text-only patients; |
| - 989 multimodal rows; |
| - 497 EHRXQA-derived multimodal rows; |
| - 492 MedMod-derived multimodal rows; |
| - 350 unique EHRXQA linked CXR JPG paths; |
| - 477 unique MedMod linked CXR JPG paths; |
| - 356 unique EHRXQA linked CXR report paths. |
|
|
| After local reconstruction, the same validation script can also check the |
| materialized runtime assets, including patient DBs, image paths, and report |
| paths. See the ClinSeekAgent reconstruction documentation for the full commands. |
|
|
| ## Evaluation |
|
|
| Evaluation code and instructions are maintained in the ClinSeekAgent repository: |
| https://github.com/UCSC-VLAA/ClinSeekAgent. |
|
|
| After reconstructing the protected runtime assets locally, follow the |
| ClinSeekAgent documentation for Automated Evidence-Seeking evaluation, Curated |
| Input evaluation, and scoring. |
|
|
| ## Responsible Use |
|
|
| ClinSeek-Bench is for research on clinical evidence seeking. It is not a |
| medical device and must not be used for clinical diagnosis, treatment, triage, |
| or patient management without separate validation, governance, and regulatory |
| review. |
|
|