5 papers
Point Tracking in Surgery--The 2025 Surgical Tattoos in Infrared Challenge (STIRC2025)
Adam Schmidt, Mert Asim Karaoglu, Zijian Wu +32
The paper presents the 2025 Surgical Tattoos in Infrared Challenge (STIRC2025), evaluating point-tracking algorithms on infrared tattoo data from surgical videos for accuracy and i…
Track2Map: Online Deformable SLAM with Motion-Aware Pose Optimization in Robotic Surgery
Tianyi Song, Sierra Bonilla, Xinwei Ju +6
Gaussian splatting is the current state-of-the-art for dense, deformable 3D anatomy reconstruction in robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery (RAMIS); however, most pipelines are…
Point Tracking in Surgery--The 2024 Surgical Tattoos in Infrared (STIR) Challenge
Adam Schmidt, Mert Asim Karaoglu, Soham Sinha +37
Understanding tissue motion in surgery is crucial to enable applications in downstream tasks such as segmentation, 3D reconstruction, virtual tissue landmarking, autonomous probe-b…
SurgPose: a Dataset for Articulated Robotic Surgical Tool Pose Estimation and Tracking
Zijian Wu, Adam Schmidt, Randy Moore +4
Accurate and efficient surgical robotic tool pose estimation is of fundamental significance to downstream applications such as augmented reality (AR) in surgical training and learn…
Image Retrieval with Intra-Sweep Representation Learning for Neck Ultrasound Scanning Guidance
Wanwen Chen, Adam Schmidt, Eitan Prisman +1
Purpose: Intraoperative ultrasound (US) can enhance real-time visualization in transoral robotic surgery. The surgeon creates a mental map with a pre-operative scan. Then, a surgic…