MedQ-Deg: A Multidimensional Benchmark for Evaluating MLLMs Across Medical Image Quality Degradations
Paper • 2603.07769 • Published • 2
Error code: FeaturesError
Exception: ParserError
Message: Error tokenizing data. C error: Expected 17 fields in line 443, saw 18
Traceback: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/split/first_rows.py", line 243, in compute_first_rows_from_streaming_response
iterable_dataset = iterable_dataset._resolve_features()
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/datasets/iterable_dataset.py", line 4072, in _resolve_features
features = _infer_features_from_batch(self.with_format(None)._head())
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/datasets/iterable_dataset.py", line 2404, in _head
return next(iter(self.iter(batch_size=n)))
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/datasets/iterable_dataset.py", line 2597, in iter
for key, example in iterator:
^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/datasets/iterable_dataset.py", line 2102, in __iter__
for key, pa_table in self._iter_arrow():
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/datasets/iterable_dataset.py", line 2124, in _iter_arrow
yield from self.ex_iterable._iter_arrow()
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/datasets/iterable_dataset.py", line 479, in _iter_arrow
for key, pa_table in iterator:
^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/datasets/iterable_dataset.py", line 380, in _iter_arrow
for key, pa_table in self.generate_tables_fn(**gen_kwags):
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/csv/csv.py", line 198, in _generate_tables
for batch_idx, df in enumerate(csv_file_reader):
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pandas/io/parsers/readers.py", line 1843, in __next__
return self.get_chunk()
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pandas/io/parsers/readers.py", line 1985, in get_chunk
return self.read(nrows=size)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pandas/io/parsers/readers.py", line 1923, in read
) = self._engine.read( # type: ignore[attr-defined]
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pandas/io/parsers/c_parser_wrapper.py", line 234, in read
chunks = self._reader.read_low_memory(nrows)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "pandas/_libs/parsers.pyx", line 850, in pandas._libs.parsers.TextReader.read_low_memory
File "pandas/_libs/parsers.pyx", line 905, in pandas._libs.parsers.TextReader._read_rows
File "pandas/_libs/parsers.pyx", line 874, in pandas._libs.parsers.TextReader._tokenize_rows
File "pandas/_libs/parsers.pyx", line 891, in pandas._libs.parsers.TextReader._check_tokenize_status
File "pandas/_libs/parsers.pyx", line 2061, in pandas._libs.parsers.raise_parser_error
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Benchmarking Robustness of Medical VLMs Against Image Degradation
MedQ-DEG-Bench is a comprehensive benchmark for evaluating the robustness of medical Vision-Language Models (VLMs) against various types of image degradation. It covers 18 clinically-relevant degradation types across 7 medical imaging modalities, with each degradation applied at mild and severe levels.
| Split | Samples | Description |
|---|---|---|
MedQDEGBench_simulate_dev |
10,392 | Degraded images - development set |
MedQDEGBench_simulate_test |
10,196 | Degraded images - test set |
MedQDEGBench_good_dev |
2,153 | Clean reference images - development set |
MedQDEGBench_good_test |
2,153 | Clean reference images - test set |
Total: 24,894 samples
Integrated with VLMEvalKit for plug-and-play evaluation:
python run.py --model grok-4 --data MedQDEGBench_simulate_test --api-nproc 32 --retry 3 --reuse
@article{liu2026medq,
title={MedQ-Deg: A Multidimensional Benchmark for Evaluating MLLMs Across Medical Image Quality Degradations},
author={Jiyao Liu and Junzhi Ning and Chenglong Ma and Wanying Qu and Jianghan Shen and Siqi Luo and Jinjie Wei and Jin Ye and Pengze Li and Tianbin Li and Jiashi Lin and Hongming Shan and Xinzhe Luo and Xiaohong Liu and Lihao Liu and Junjun He and Ningsheng Xu},
journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.07769},
year={2026}
}