arxiv: 2602.09587 · v2 · submitted 2026-02-10 · 💻 cs.CV · cs.AI

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MieDB-100k: A Comprehensive Dataset for Medical Image Editing

Yongfan Lai , Wen Qian , Bo Liu , Hongyan Li , Hao Luo , Fan Wang , Bohan Zhuang , Shenda Hong

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classification 💻 cs.CV cs.AI

keywords MieDB-100kmedical image editingtext-guided editingdatasetgenerative modelsdata curationclinical fidelitymultimodal models

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The pith

A new 100k-scale dataset for text-guided medical image editing trains models that outperform existing open-source and proprietary systems.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

This paper presents MieDB-100k as a large-scale resource to overcome the shortage of high-quality data for medical image editing with generative models. The dataset organizes tasks into Perception, Modification, and Transformation categories that address both image understanding and generation needs. Construction relies on modality-specific expert models combined with rule-based synthesis and manual review to achieve scale and clinical fidelity. Models trained on MieDB-100k show consistent gains over prior systems and maintain performance on new cases. Availability of such data supports development of more reliable text-controlled tools for altering medical scans.

Core claim

MieDB-100k is a 100k-image dataset for text-guided medical image editing that categorizes tasks into Perception, Modification, and Transformation perspectives. It is assembled through a pipeline that applies modality-specific expert models and rule-based synthetic methods, followed by manual inspection to preserve clinical fidelity. Models trained on the dataset consistently outperform both open-source and proprietary alternatives while demonstrating strong generalization across editing tasks.

What carries the argument

The data curation pipeline that combines modality-specific expert models with rule-based synthetic methods, followed by manual inspection to ensure clinical fidelity and diversity.

If this is right

Models trained with MieDB-100k consistently outperform both open-source and proprietary models on medical image editing tasks.
Trained models exhibit strong generalization ability to new editing scenarios.
The dataset balances quality with scalability while covering both understanding and generation abilities.
MieDB-100k can serve as a foundation for future work in specialized medical image editing.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

The three-category task structure could be adapted to create standardized benchmarks for image editing outside medicine.
Scaling the same curation approach might produce datasets for related medical tasks such as report generation or segmentation.
Widespread use of the dataset could reduce the data barrier for deploying text-guided editing in clinical workflows.

Load-bearing premise

The curation pipeline using modality-specific expert models and rule-based synthetic methods followed by manual inspection produces diverse high-quality data with clinical fidelity and no systematic biases or artifacts.

What would settle it

An evaluation in which models trained on MieDB-100k show no performance improvement over baselines on standard medical image editing benchmarks or generate edits containing detectable clinical artifacts.

read the original abstract

The scarcity of high-quality data remains a primary bottleneck in adapting multimodal generative models for medical image editing. Existing medical image editing datasets often suffer from limited diversity, neglect of medical image understanding and inability to balance quality with scalability. To address these gaps, we propose MieDB-100k, a large-scale, high-quality and diverse dataset for text-guided medical image editing. It categorizes editing tasks into perspectives of Perception, Modification and Transformation, considering both understanding and generation abilities. We construct MieDB-100k via a data curation pipeline leveraging both modality-specific expert models and rule-based data synthetic methods, followed by rigorous manual inspection to ensure clinical fidelity. Extensive experiments demonstrate that model trained with MieDB-100k consistently outperform both open-source and proprietary models while exhibiting strong generalization ability. We anticipate that this dataset will serve as a cornerstone for future advancements in specialized medical image editing.

Editorial analysis

A structured set of objections, weighed in public.

Desk editor's note, referee report, simulated authors' rebuttal, and a circularity audit. Tearing a paper down is the easy half of reading it; the pith above is the substance, this is the friction.

Desk Editor's Note private letter to a colleague

MieDB-100k is a new 100k-scale medical image editing dataset with task categories, but its outperformance claims rest on unshown metrics and unquantified data fidelity.

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The main point is that this paper releases MieDB-100k, a 100,000-image dataset for text-guided medical image editing. It splits tasks into Perception, Modification, and Transformation to cover both understanding and generation needs, built through modality-specific expert models, rule-based synthesis, and manual review for clinical fidelity. That scale and structure in the medical domain is new compared to prior smaller or less categorized sets. The construction pipeline is practical and directly tackles the data scarcity problem that slows down generative models for clinical use. They get credit for making the effort to produce something large and organized rather than just describing the problem again. The soft spot is the evidence. The abstract states that models trained on MieDB-100k beat both open-source and proprietary ones with strong generalization, yet no numbers, baselines, protocols, or error breakdowns appear in the available text. The data quality step also relies on manual inspection without reported inter-rater stats, artifact rates, or distributional comparisons to real scans, so it is possible synthetic inconsistencies remain and get picked up as features. This matters because the headline result depends on the data being clean enough to drive real gains. The paper is for researchers who need training data for medical image editing models or who build similar datasets themselves. Someone in that niche can pull the task breakdown and curation steps for their own work. It deserves peer review because the resource is concrete and the curation details are worth checking even if the downstream results need more scrutiny. Send it to referees and ask specifically for the experimental tables plus quantitative validation on the synthetic data.

Referee Report

3 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper introduces MieDB-100k, a 100k-scale dataset for text-guided medical image editing tasks. Tasks are categorized into Perception, Modification, and Transformation to jointly address understanding and generation. The dataset is constructed via a pipeline that combines modality-specific expert models with rule-based synthesis, followed by manual inspection to ensure clinical fidelity. The central claim is that models trained on MieDB-100k consistently outperform both open-source and proprietary models while showing strong generalization.

Significance. A large, diverse, and clinically faithful medical image editing dataset would address a clear data bottleneck in multimodal generative models for medicine. If the curation pipeline truly yields high-fidelity examples without systematic artifacts, the resource could become a standard benchmark and training corpus, accelerating progress on specialized editing tasks that current general-purpose models handle poorly.

major comments (3)

[Section 3] Data curation pipeline (Section 3): The claim that manual inspection guarantees clinical fidelity and eliminates systematic biases or artifacts is load-bearing for all downstream performance claims, yet the manuscript supplies no inter-rater agreement statistics, quantitative artifact detection rates, or distributional comparisons against real clinical data.
[Section 4] Experiments (Section 4): The abstract asserts that models trained on MieDB-100k 'consistently outperform' open-source and proprietary baselines, but the provided text contains no quantitative metrics, baseline descriptions, evaluation protocols, or error analysis. Without these, the central empirical claim cannot be assessed.
[Section 4] Generalization evaluation: The assertion of 'strong generalization ability' is central to the paper's contribution, yet no concrete cross-modality, cross-institution, or out-of-distribution test settings are described, leaving the scope of the claim undefined.

minor comments (2)

[Abstract] The abstract would be strengthened by including at least one key quantitative result (e.g., a specific metric improvement) rather than a purely qualitative statement of outperformance.
[Section 2] Task definitions for Perception, Modification, and Transformation would benefit from explicit criteria or example prompts to clarify how the categorization ensures balanced coverage of understanding versus generation.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We sincerely thank the referee for the constructive and detailed feedback on our manuscript. We appreciate the identification of areas where additional details will strengthen the presentation of MieDB-100k. We address each major comment below and will incorporate the necessary revisions into the updated version of the paper.

read point-by-point responses

Referee: [Section 3] Data curation pipeline (Section 3): The claim that manual inspection guarantees clinical fidelity and eliminates systematic biases or artifacts is load-bearing for all downstream performance claims, yet the manuscript supplies no inter-rater agreement statistics, quantitative artifact detection rates, or distributional comparisons against real clinical data.

Authors: We agree that quantitative validation of the manual inspection step is essential to support claims of clinical fidelity. In the revised manuscript, we will augment Section 3 with inter-rater agreement statistics (e.g., Fleiss' kappa computed across multiple expert annotators), quantitative artifact detection rates (percentage of samples flagged for correction during inspection), and distributional comparisons (including Kolmogorov-Smirnov tests on intensity histograms, texture features, and modality-specific metrics) against real clinical data drawn from public repositories such as ChestX-ray14 and MIMIC-CXR. revision: yes
Referee: [Section 4] Experiments (Section 4): The abstract asserts that models trained on MieDB-100k 'consistently outperform' open-source and proprietary baselines, but the provided text contains no quantitative metrics, baseline descriptions, evaluation protocols, or error analysis. Without these, the central empirical claim cannot be assessed.

Authors: We acknowledge the omission of detailed experimental reporting in the current draft. Section 4 will be expanded to include all quantitative metrics (FID, LPIPS, PSNR, SSIM, and task-specific scores for perception, modification, and transformation), explicit baseline descriptions (specific open-source models such as InstructPix2Pix and Stable Diffusion variants, plus proprietary models evaluated via API), the complete evaluation protocol (train/validation/test splits, prompt templates, and inference settings), and an error analysis section with quantitative breakdown of failure modes and qualitative examples. revision: yes
Referee: [Section 4] Generalization evaluation: The assertion of 'strong generalization ability' is central to the paper's contribution, yet no concrete cross-modality, cross-institution, or out-of-distribution test settings are described, leaving the scope of the claim undefined.

Authors: We will clarify the generalization evaluation by adding a dedicated subsection that explicitly defines the test settings: cross-modality transfer (e.g., X-ray to CT and MRI to ultrasound), cross-institution evaluation (using held-out data from different hospitals with distinct acquisition protocols), and out-of-distribution tests (unseen pathologies and rare imaging artifacts). Corresponding performance tables and statistical significance tests will be reported to substantiate the generalization claims. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: empirical dataset paper with external validation

full rationale

The paper introduces MieDB-100k as an empirical dataset constructed via a described curation pipeline (modality-specific expert models + rule-based synthesis + manual inspection). No equations, derivations, parameter fittings, or predictions appear in the text. Outperformance claims rest on separate experiments rather than reducing to internal definitions or self-citations. No load-bearing steps match any enumerated circularity pattern; the contribution is self-contained against external benchmarks.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 2 axioms · 0 invented entities

The central claim depends on untested assumptions about the fidelity of synthetic medical edits and the fairness of the reported model comparisons; no free parameters or new entities are introduced.

axioms (2)

domain assumption Modality-specific expert models can generate clinically accurate synthetic medical image edits without introducing artifacts or biases
Invoked as the foundation of the data curation pipeline in the abstract.
domain assumption Manual inspection after synthetic generation is sufficient to guarantee clinical fidelity and diversity
Stated as the final quality-control step.

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We construct MieDB-100k via a data curation pipeline leveraging both modality-specific expert models and rule-based data synthetic methods, followed by rigorous manual inspection to ensure clinical fidelity.
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MieDB-100k includes 112,228 editing data, covering 69 distinct editing targets and 10 diverse medical image modalities.

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