13 papers
Reasoning in machine vision by learning fast and slow thinking
Shaheer U. Saeed, Yipei Wang, Veeru Kasivisvanathan +4
Reasoning is a hallmark of human intelligence, enabling adaptive decision-making in complex unfamiliar scenarios. In contrast, machine intelligence remains bound to training data,…
Depth Augmented and FE Free 3D/2D Liver Registration for Laparoscopic Liver AR
Hanyuan Zhang, Lucas He, Runlong He +6
Augmented reality (AR) guidance in laparoscopic liver surgery requires accurate registration of preoperative 3D models to intraoperative 2D video, but remains challenging due to pa…
Warm-Started Reinforcement Learning for Iterative 3D/2D Liver Registration
Hanyuan Zhang, Lucas He, Zijie Cheng +5
Registration between preoperative CT and intraoperative laparoscopic video plays a crucial role in augmented reality (AR) guidance for minimally invasive surgery. Learning-based me…
Flow Matching-enabled Test-Time Refinement for Unsupervised Cardiac MR Registration
Yunguan Fu, Wenjia Bai, Wen Yan +3
Diffusion-based unsupervised image registration has been explored for cardiac cine MR, but expensive multi-step inference limits practical use. We propose FlowReg, a flow-matching…
SurgFusion-Net: Diversified Adaptive Multimodal Fusion Network for Surgical Skill Assessment
Runlong He, Freweini M. Tesfai, Matthew W. E. Boal +13
Robotic-assisted surgery (RAS) is established in clinical practice, and automated surgical skill assessment utilizing multimodal data offers transformative potential for surgical a…
TUS-REC2024: A Challenge to Reconstruct 3D Freehand Ultrasound Without External Tracker
Qi Li, Shaheer U. Saeed, Yuliang Huang +24
Trackerless freehand ultrasound reconstruction aims to reconstruct 3D volumes from sequences of 2D ultrasound images without relying on external tracking systems. By eliminating th…