11 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…
SCARED-C: Corrected Camera Poses for Endoscopic Depth Estimation
John J. Han, Adam Schmidt, Max Allan +2
The SCARED dataset is a widely used benchmark for endoscopic depth estimation, offering ground-truth 3D reconstructions captured with a structured light sensor. However, the depth…
Seeing Through Smoke: Surgical Desmoking for Improved Visual Perception
Jingpei Lu, Fengyi Jiang, Xiaorui Zhang +2
Minimally invasive and robot-assisted surgery relies heavily on endoscopic imaging, yet surgical smoke produced by electrocautery and vessel-sealing instruments can severely degrad…
SUREON: A Benchmark and Vision-Language-Model for Surgical Reasoning
Alejandra Perez, Anita Rau, Lee White +4
Surgeons don't just see -- they interpret. When an expert observes a surgical scene, they understand not only what instrument is being used, but why it was chosen, what risk it pos…
SurgLaVi: Large-Scale Hierarchical Dataset for Surgical Vision-Language Representation Learning
Alejandra Perez, Chinedu Nwoye, Ramtin Raji Kermani +2
Vision-language pre-training (VLP) offers unique advantages for surgery by aligning language with surgical videos, enabling workflow understanding and transfer across tasks without…