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20192025
most citedVirtual Reality for Synergistic Surgical Training and Data Generation

26 citations · 97 across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

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19 papers

cs.RO2025★ 1 cited

Cosmos-H-Surgical: Learning Surgical Robot Policies from Videos via World Modeling

Yufan He, Pengfei Guo, Mengya Xu +11

Data scarcity remains a fundamental barrier to achieving fully autonomous surgical robots. While large scale vision language action (VLA) models have shown impressive generalizatio…

cs.CV2024

Ada-Tracker: Soft Tissue Tracking via Inter-Frame and Adaptive-Template Matching

Jiaxin Guo, Jiangliu Wang, Zhaoshuo Li +3

Soft tissue tracking is crucial for computer-assisted interventions. Existing approaches mainly rely on extracting discriminative features from the template and videos to recover c…

cs.CV2023★ 11 cited

Neuralangelo: High-Fidelity Neural Surface Reconstruction

Zhaoshuo Li, Thomas Müller, Alex Evans +4

Neural surface reconstruction has been shown to be powerful for recovering dense 3D surfaces via image-based neural rendering. However, current methods struggle to recover detailed…

cs.HC2023★ 15 cited

Improving Surgical Situational Awareness with Signed Distance Field: A Pilot Study in Virtual Reality

Hisashi Ishida, Juan Antonio Barragan, Adnan Munawar +6

The introduction of image-guided surgical navigation (IGSN) has greatly benefited technically demanding surgical procedures by providing real-time support and guidance to the surge…

cs.RO2023

Fully Immersive Virtual Reality for Skull-base Surgery: Surgical Training and Beyond

Adnan Munawar, Zhaoshuo Li, Nimesh Nagururu +4

Purpose: A virtual reality (VR) system, where surgeons can practice procedures on virtual anatomies, is a scalable and cost-effective alternative to cadaveric training. The fully d…

cs.CV2022★ 1 cited

TAToo: Vision-based Joint Tracking of Anatomy and Tool for Skull-base Surgery

Zhaoshuo Li, Hongchao Shu, Ruixing Liang +5

Purpose: Tracking the 3D motion of the surgical tool and the patient anatomy is a fundamental requirement for computer-assisted skull-base surgery. The estimated motion can be used…

cs.RO2022

Rethinking Causality-driven Robot Tool Segmentation with Temporal Constraints

Hao Ding, Jie Ying Wu, Zhaoshuo Li +1

Purpose: Vision-based robot tool segmentation plays a fundamental role in surgical robots and downstream tasks. CaRTS, based on a complementary causal model, has shown promising pe…

cs.HC2022

Twin-S: A Digital Twin for Skull-base Surgery

Hongchao Shu, Ruixing Liang, Zhaoshuo Li +9

Purpose: Digital twins are virtual interactive models of the real world, exhibiting identical behavior and properties. In surgical applications, computational analysis from digital…

cs.CV2022

Context-Enhanced Stereo Transformer

Weiyu Guo, Zhaoshuo Li, Yongkui Yang +5

Stereo depth estimation is of great interest for computer vision research. However, existing methods struggles to generalize and predict reliably in hazardous regions, such as larg…

cs.CV2022

SAGE: SLAM with Appearance and Geometry Prior for Endoscopy

Xingtong Liu, Zhaoshuo Li, Masaru Ishii +3

In endoscopy, many applications (e.g., surgical navigation) would benefit from a real-time method that can simultaneously track the endoscope and reconstruct the dense 3D geometry…

cs.RO2021★ 26 cited

Virtual Reality for Synergistic Surgical Training and Data Generation

Adnan Munawar, Zhaoshuo Li, Punit Kunjam +7

Surgical simulators not only allow planning and training of complex procedures, but also offer the ability to generate structured data for algorithm development, which may be appli…

cs.CV2021★ 3 cited

Temporally Consistent Online Depth Estimation in Dynamic Scenes

Zhaoshuo Li, Wei Ye, Dilin Wang +4

Temporally consistent depth estimation is crucial for online applications such as augmented reality. While stereo depth estimation has received substantial attention as a promising…

cs.CV2021★ 3 cited

On the Sins of Image Synthesis Loss for Self-supervised Depth Estimation

Zhaoshuo Li, Nathan Drenkow, Hao Ding +5

Scene depth estimation from stereo and monocular imagery is critical for extracting 3D information for downstream tasks such as scene understanding. Recently, learning-based method…

cs.CV2021★ 2 cited

E-DSSR: Efficient Dynamic Surgical Scene Reconstruction with Transformer-based Stereoscopic Depth Perception

Yonghao Long, Zhaoshuo Li, Chi Hang Yee +4

Reconstructing the scene of robotic surgery from the stereo endoscopic video is an important and promising topic in surgical data science, which potentially supports many applicati…

eess.IV2021

An Interpretable Approach to Automated Severity Scoring in Pelvic Trauma

Anna Zapaishchykova, David Dreizin, Zhaoshuo Li +3

Pelvic ring disruptions result from blunt injury mechanisms and are often found in patients with multi-system trauma. To grade pelvic fracture severity in trauma victims based on w…

cs.CV2020★ 5 cited

Revisiting Stereo Depth Estimation From a Sequence-to-Sequence Perspective with Transformers

Zhaoshuo Li, Xingtong Liu, Nathan Drenkow +4

Stereo depth estimation relies on optimal correspondence matching between pixels on epipolar lines in the left and right images to infer depth. In this work, we revisit the problem…

cs.RO2020

Anatomical Mesh-Based Virtual Fixtures for Surgical Robots

Zhaoshuo Li, Alex Gordon, Thomas Looi +3

This paper presents a dynamic constraint formulation to provide protective virtual fixtures of 3D anatomical structures from polygon mesh representations. The proposed approach can…

cs.CV2020★ 8 cited

A Robotic 3D Perception System for Operating Room Environment Awareness

Zhaoshuo Li, Amirreza Shaban, Jean-Gabriel Simard +3

Purpose: We describe a 3D multi-view perception system for the da Vinci surgical system to enable Operating room (OR) scene understanding and context awareness. Methods: Our propos…

cs.RO2019★ 22 cited

Hybrid Robot-assisted Frameworks for Endomicroscopy Scanning in Retinal Surgeries

Zhaoshuo Li, Mahya Shahbazi, Niravkumar Patel +9

High-resolution real-time intraocular imaging of retina at the cellular level is very challenging due to the vulnerable and confined space within the eyeball as well as the limited…