AutoMedBench: Towards Medical AutoResearch with Agentic AI Models

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AutoMedBench is a workflow-aware benchmark for autonomous medical-AI research, evaluating agents across five stages on diverse medical imaging tasks. Stage-level scoring reveals validation as the weakest stage, highlighting the need for reliable verification in agentic workflows.

Autonomous agents are increasingly expected to support end-to-end medical-AI research workflows, moving beyond isolated prediction tasks or short-form clinical question answering. However, existing medical agent benchmarks primarily evaluate final outputs, providing limited visibility into agent behavior within the research process. To address this gap, we present AutoMedBench, a workflow-aware benchmark for autonomous medical-AI research across diverse medical imaging and multimodal inference tasks, organizing agent execution into a unified five-stage workflow (S1-S5): Plan, Setup, Validate, Inference, and Submit. It comprises long-horizon tasks with each run averaging 33 agent turns, spanning five research tracks: segmentation, image enhancement, visual question answering (VQA), report generation, and lesion detection. Each task is evaluated under two difficulty tiers, Lite and Standard, which use the same data and metrics but differ in the amount of task-brief scaffolding, and each run is scored using both final task performance and S1-S5 stage scores, enabling stage-level analysis from the initial task brief to the final submitted artifact. Across thousands of recorded runs, stage-level scoring reveals that Validate is the weakest workflow stage on average, whereas Setup is the strongest, suggesting that current agents are better at making pipelines executable than at verifying their reliability. Post-run error analysis further shows that verification and submission failures dominate tagged errors, accounting for 37.7% and 38.1% of fired codes respectively, whereas task-understanding errors are rare at 0.9%, and runs with one fired error code have a 48% lower overall score than runs with no error code on average.
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Abstract

AutoMedBench presents a comprehensive benchmark for autonomous medical-AI research that evaluates agent performance across five workflow stages, revealing validation as the weakest stage and highlighting the importance of reliable pipeline execution and verification in medical AI workflows.

Autonomous agentsare increasingly expected to support end-to-endmedical-AI researchworkflows, moving beyond isolated prediction tasks or short-form clinical question answering. However, existing medical agent benchmarks primarily evaluate final outputs, providing limited visibility into agent behavior within the research process. To address this gap, we present AutoMedBench, aworkflow-aware benchmarkfor autonomousmedical-AI researchacross diverse medical imaging and multimodalinferencetasks, organizing agent execution into a unifiedfive-stage workflow(S1-S5):Plan,Setup,Validate,Inference, andSubmit. It compriseslong-horizon taskswith each run averaging 33 agent turns, spanning fiveresearch tracks:segmentation,image enhancement,visual question answering(VQA),report generation, andlesion detection. Each task is evaluated under two difficulty tiers, Lite and Standard, which use the same data and metrics but differ in the amount of task-brief scaffolding, and each run is scored using both final task performance and S1-S5 stage scores, enablingstage-level analysisfrom the initial task brief to the finalsubmitted artifact. Across thousands of recorded runs, stage-level scoring reveals thatValidateis the weakest workflow stage on average, whereasSetupis the strongest, suggesting that current agents are better at making pipelines executable than at verifying their reliability. Post-runerror analysisfurther shows thatverificationandsubmission failuresdominate tagged errors, accounting for 37.7% and 38.1% of fired codes respectively, whereastask-understanding errorsare rare at 0.9%, and runs with one fired error code have a 48% lower overall score than runs with no error code on average.

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