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NeuroQA benchmark tests AI on 3D brain MRI understanding

Researchers have introduced NeuroQA, a new benchmark designed to evaluate visual question answering capabilities specifically for 3D brain MRI scans. This benchmark includes over 56,000 question-answer pairs derived from more than 12,000 subjects, covering a wide age range and five major clinical areas. NeuroQA aims to overcome limitations of previous medical VQA efforts by utilizing full 3D volumes and implementing strategies to prevent text-only shortcuts, with initial evaluations showing current models struggle to surpass a baseline accuracy. AI

IMPACT Establishes a new standard for AI's ability to interpret complex 3D medical imaging, potentially accelerating diagnostic AI development.

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Mohammad H. Abbasi (Stanford University), Favour Nerrise (Stanford University), Shaurnav Ghosh (Stanford University), Ridvan Yesiloglu (Stanford University), Yuncong Mao (Stanford University), Bailey Trang (Stanford University), Mohammad Asadi (Stanford … ·

    NeuroQA: A Large-Scale Image-Grounded Benchmark for 3D Brain MRI Understanding

    arXiv:2605.20525v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present NeuroQA, a large-scale benchmark for visual question answering in 3D brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), with 56,953 QA pairs from 12,977 subjects across 12 datasets. It spans ages 5-104 and five clinical domains: A…

  2. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Ehsan Adeli ·

    NeuroQA: A Large-Scale Image-Grounded Benchmark for 3D Brain MRI Understanding

    We present NeuroQA, a large-scale benchmark for visual question answering in 3D brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), with 56,953 QA pairs from 12,977 subjects across 12 datasets. It spans ages 5-104 and five clinical domains: Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, tumors, white matter dise…