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20042025
most citedThe Liver Tumor Segmentation Benchmark (LiTS)

1.2k citations

26 papers

cs.CY2025★ 14 cited

Surgeons Awareness, Expectations, and Involvement with Artificial Intelligence: a Survey Pre and Post the GPT Era

Lorenzo Arboit, Dennis N. Schneider, Toby Collins +7

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming medicine, with generative AI models like ChatGPT reshaping perceptions of its potential. This study examines surgeons' awareness, expec…

cs.CV2024★ 18 cited

SurgiTrack: Fine-Grained Multi-Class Multi-Tool Tracking in Surgical Videos

Chinedu Innocent Nwoye, Nicolas Padoy

Accurate tool tracking is essential for the success of computer-assisted intervention. Previous efforts often modeled tool trajectories rigidly, overlooking the dynamic nature of s…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

On-the-Fly Point Annotation for Fast Medical Video Labeling

Meyer Adrien, Mazellier Jean-Paul, Jeremy Dana +1

Purpose: In medical research, deep learning models rely on high-quality annotated data, a process often laborious and timeconsuming. This is particularly true for detection tasks w…

cs.CV2023★ 16 cited

Encoding Surgical Videos as Latent Spatiotemporal Graphs for Object and Anatomy-Driven Reasoning

Aditya Murali, Deepak Alapatt, Pietro Mascagni +5

Recently, spatiotemporal graphs have emerged as a concise and elegant manner of representing video clips in an object-centric fashion, and have shown to be useful for downstream ta…

cs.CV2023★ 24 cited

The Endoscapes Dataset for Surgical Scene Segmentation, Object Detection, and Critical View of Safety Assessment: Official Splits and Benchmark

Aditya Murali, Deepak Alapatt, Pietro Mascagni +8

This technical report provides a detailed overview of Endoscapes, a dataset of laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) videos with highly intricate annotations targeted at automated asse…

cs.AI2023

Automated Driving Without Ethics: Meaning, Design and Real-World Implementation

Katherine Evans, Nelson de Moura, Raja Chatila +1

The ethics of automated vehicles (AV) has received a great amount of attention in recent years, specifically in regard to their decisional policies in accident situations in which…

cs.CV2023★ 9 cited

Learning Multi-modal Representations by Watching Hundreds of Surgical Video Lectures

Kun Yuan, Vinkle Srivastav, Tong Yu +5

Recent advancements in surgical computer vision applications have been driven by vision-only models, which do not explicitly integrate the rich semantics of language into their des…

cs.CV2023★ 14 cited

Weakly Supervised Temporal Convolutional Networks for Fine-grained Surgical Activity Recognition

Sanat Ramesh, Diego Dall'Alba, Cristians Gonzalez +6

Automatic recognition of fine-grained surgical activities, called steps, is a challenging but crucial task for intelligent intra-operative computer assistance. The development of c…

cs.CV2023★ 23 cited

Preserving Privacy in Surgical Video Analysis Using Artificial Intelligence: A Deep Learning Classifier to Identify Out-of-Body Scenes in Endoscopic Videos

Joël L. Lavanchy, Armine Vardazaryan, Pietro Mascagni +3

Objective: To develop and validate a deep learning model for the identification of out-of-body images in endoscopic videos. Background: Surgical video analysis facilitates educatio…

cs.CV2022★ 1 cited

Latent Graph Representations for Critical View of Safety Assessment

Aditya Murali, Deepak Alapatt, Pietro Mascagni +5

Assessing the critical view of safety in laparoscopic cholecystectomy requires accurate identification and localization of key anatomical structures, reasoning about their geometri…

cs.CV2022

Memory transformers for full context and high-resolution 3D Medical Segmentation

Loic Themyr, Clément Rambour, Nicolas Thome +2

Transformer models achieve state-of-the-art results for image segmentation. However, achieving long-range attention, necessary to capture global context, with high-resolution 3D im…

eess.IV2022★ 11 cited

Live Laparoscopic Video Retrieval with Compressed Uncertainty

Tong Yu, Pietro Mascagni, Juan Verde +3

Searching through large volumes of medical data to retrieve relevant information is a challenging yet crucial task for clinical care. However the primitive and most common approach…

cs.CV2021★ 5 cited

Temporally Constrained Neural Networks (TCNN): A framework for semi-supervised video semantic segmentation

Deepak Alapatt, Pietro Mascagni, Armine Vardazaryan +7

A major obstacle to building models for effective semantic segmentation, and particularly video semantic segmentation, is a lack of large and well annotated datasets. This bottlene…

cs.CV2021★ 210 cited

Rendezvous: Attention Mechanisms for the Recognition of Surgical Action Triplets in Endoscopic Videos

Chinedu Innocent Nwoye, Tong Yu, Cristians Gonzalez +5

Out of all existing frameworks for surgical workflow analysis in endoscopic videos, action triplet recognition stands out as the only one aiming to provide truly fine-grained and c…

q-bio.TO2021★ 5 cited

Intraoperative time out to promote the implementation of the critical view of safety in laparoscopic cholecystectomy: a video-based assessment of 343 procedures

Pietro Mascagni, Maria Rita Rodriguez-Luna, Takeshi Urade +7

Background: The critical view of safety (CVS) is poorly adopted in surgical practices although it is ubiquitously recommended to prevent major bile duct injuries during laparoscopi…

cs.RO2021

Robotic needle steering in deformable tissues with extreme learning machines

Pedro Henrique Suruagy Perrusi, Anna Cazzaniga, Paul Baksic +3

Control strategies for robotic needle steering in soft tissues must account for complex interactions between the needle and the tissue to achieve accurate needle tip positioning. R…

cs.CV2021★ 10 cited

Multi-Task Temporal Convolutional Networks for Joint Recognition of Surgical Phases and Steps in Gastric Bypass Procedures

Sanat Ramesh, Diego Dall'Alba, Cristians Gonzalez +6

Purpose: Automatic segmentation and classification of surgical activity is crucial for providing advanced support in computer-assisted interventions and autonomous functionalities…

cs.RO2021★ 1 cited

Wearable Sensors for Spatio-Temporal Grip Force Profiling

Rongrong Liu, Florent Nageotte, Philippe Zanne +2

Wearable biosensor technology enables real-time, convenient, and continuous monitoring of users behavioral signals. Such include signals relative to body motion, body temperature,…

eess.IV2020★ 6 cited

Recognition of Instrument-Tissue Interactions in Endoscopic Videos via Action Triplets

Chinedu Innocent Nwoye, Cristians Gonzalez, Tong Yu +4

Recognition of surgical activity is an essential component to develop context-aware decision support for the operating room. In this work, we tackle the recognition of fine-grained…

cs.CV2019★ 1.2k cited

The Liver Tumor Segmentation Benchmark (LiTS)

Patrick Bilic, Patrick Christ, Hongwei Bran Li +106

In this work, we report the set-up and results of the Liver Tumor Segmentation Benchmark (LiTS), which was organized in conjunction with the IEEE International Symposium on Biomedi…

cs.CV2018★ 151 cited

Weakly Supervised Convolutional LSTM Approach for Tool Tracking in Laparoscopic Videos

Chinedu Innocent Nwoye, Didier Mutter, Jacques Marescaux +1

Purpose: Real-time surgical tool tracking is a core component of the future intelligent operating room (OR), because it is highly instrumental to analyze and understand the surgica…

cs.CV2018★ 38 cited

Future-State Predicting LSTM for Early Surgery Type Recognition

Siddharth Kannan, Gaurav Yengera, Didier Mutter +2

This work presents a novel approach for the early recognition of the type of a laparoscopic surgery from its video. Early recognition algorithms can be beneficial to the developmen…

cs.CV2018★ 3 cited

Weakly-Supervised Learning for Tool Localization in Laparoscopic Videos

Armine Vardazaryan, Didier Mutter, Jacques Marescaux +1

Surgical tool localization is an essential task for the automatic analysis of endoscopic videos. In the literature, existing methods for tool localization, tracking and segmentatio…

cs.CV2018★ 126 cited

RSDNet: Learning to Predict Remaining Surgery Duration from Laparoscopic Videos Without Manual Annotations

Andru Putra Twinanda, Gaurav Yengera, Didier Mutter +2

Accurate surgery duration estimation is necessary for optimal OR planning, which plays an important role in patient comfort and safety as well as resource optimization. It is, howe…