10 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…
6D Robotic OCT Scanning of Curved Tissue Surfaces
Suresh Guttikonda, Maximilian Neidhardt, Vidas Raudonis +1
Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a non-invasive volumetric imaging modality with high spatial and temporal resolution. For imaging larger tissue structures, OCT probes need to…
Automated Estimation of Anatomical Risk Metrics for Endoscopic Sinus Surgery Using Deep Learning
Konrad Reuter, Lennart Thaysen, Bilkay Doruk +7
Endoscopic sinus surgery requires careful preoperative assessment of the skull base anatomy to minimize risks such as cerebrospinal fluid leakage. Anatomical risk scores like the K…
A Digital Twin for Robotic Post Mortem Tissue Sampling using Virtual Reality
Maximilian Neidhardt, Ludwig Bosse, Vidas Raudonis +4
Studying tissue samples obtained during autopsies is the gold standard when diagnosing the cause of death and for understanding disease pathophysiology. Recently, the interest in p…
Deep Learning for High Speed Optical Coherence Elastography with a Fiber Scanning Endoscope
Maximilian Neidhardt, Sarah Latus, Tim Eixmann +2
Tissue stiffness is related to soft tissue pathologies and can be assessed through palpation or via clinical imaging systems, e.g., ultrasound or magnetic resonance imaging. Typica…
Tracking Any Point Methods for Markerless 3D Tissue Tracking in Endoscopic Stereo Images
Konrad Reuter, Suresh Guttikonda, Sarah Latus +4
Minimally invasive surgery presents challenges such as dynamic tissue motion and a limited field of view. Accurate tissue tracking has the potential to support surgical guidance, i…