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KFSLAM: Adaptive KeyFrame Selection with Structure-Aware Mapping for Endoscopic Gaussian Splatting SLAM
Xinwei Ju, Zhehua Mao, Tianyi Song +3
Gaussian-splatting Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) augments conventional SLAM with a dense, renderable 3D scene representation, enabling high-quality reconstruction an…
Point Tracking in Surgery--The 2025 Surgical Tattoos in Infrared Challenge (STIRC2025)
Adam Schmidt, Mert Asim Karaoglu, Zijian Wu +32
Point tracking in surgery is crucial to enable applications in downstream tasks such as segmentation, 3D reconstruction, virtual tissue landmarking, autonomous probe-based scanning…
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…
HyKey: Hyperspectral Keypoint Detection and Matching in Minimally Invasive Surgery
Alexander Saikia, Chiara Di Vece, Zhehua Mao +6
Purpose: 3D reconstruction in minimally invasive surgery (MIS) enables enhanced surgical guidance through improved visualisation, tool tracking, and augmented reality. However, tra…
Multi-Modal Monocular Endoscopic Depth and Pose Estimation with Edge-Guided Self-Supervision
Xinwei Ju, Rema Daher, Danail Stoyanov +2
Monocular depth and pose estimation play an important role in the development of colonoscopy-assisted navigation, as they enable improved screening by reducing blind spots, minimiz…
SurgAnt-ViVQA: Learning to Anticipate Surgical Events through GRU-Driven Temporal Cross-Attention
Shreyas C. Dhake, Jiayuan Huang, Runlong He +7
Anticipating forthcoming surgical events is vital for real-time assistance in endonasal transsphenoidal pituitary surgery, where visibility is limited and workflow changes rapidly.…
SurgViVQA: Temporally-Grounded Video Question Answering for Surgical Scene Understanding
Mauro Orazio Drago, Luca Carlini, Pelinsu Celebi Balyemez +7
Video Question Answering (VideoQA) in the surgical domain aims to enhance intraoperative understanding by enabling AI models to reason over temporally coherent events rather than i…
When to Trust the Answer: Question-Aligned Semantic Nearest Neighbor Entropy for Safer Surgical VQA
Luca Carlini, Dennis Pierantozzi, Mauro Orazio Drago +6
Safety and reliability are critical for deploying visual question answering (VQA) systems in surgery, where incorrect or ambiguous responses can cause patient harm. A key limitatio…
Automated Cervical Os Segmentation for Camera-Guided, Speculum-Free Screening
Aoife McDonald-Bowyer, Anjana Wijekoon, Ryan Laurance Love +7
Cervical cancer is highly preventable, yet persistent barriers to screening limit progress toward elimination goals. Speculum-free devices that integrate imaging and sampling could…
StereoMamba: Real-time and Robust Intraoperative Stereo Disparity Estimation via Long-range Spatial Dependencies
Xu Wang, Jialang Xu, Shuai Zhang +3
Stereo disparity estimation is crucial for obtaining depth information in robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery (RAMIS). While current deep learning methods have made significa…
EndoLRMGS: Complete Endoscopic Scene Reconstruction combining Large Reconstruction Modelling and Gaussian Splatting
Xu Wang, Shuai Zhang, Baoru Huang +2
Complete reconstruction of surgical scenes is crucial for robot-assisted surgery (RAS). Deep depth estimation is promising but existing works struggle with depth discontinuities, r…
3D Acetabular Surface Reconstruction from 2D Pre-operative X-ray Images using SRVF Elastic Registration and Deformation Graph
Shuai Zhang, Jinliang Wang, Sujith Konandetails +3
Accurate and reliable selection of the appropriate acetabular cup size is crucial for restoring joint biomechanics in total hip arthroplasty (THA). This paper proposes a novel fram…
Surgical AI Copilot: Energy-Based Fourier Gradient Low-Rank Adaptation for Surgical LLM Agent Reasoning and Planning
Jiayuan Huang, Runlong He, Danyal Zaman Khan +6
Image-guided surgery demands adaptive, real-time decision support, yet static AI models struggle with structured task planning and providing interactive guidance. Large language mo…
Endo-FASt3r: Endoscopic Foundation model Adaptation for Structure from motion
Mona Sheikh Zeinoddin, Mobarak I. Hoque, Zafer Tandogdu +4
Accurate depth and camera pose estimation is essential for achieving high-quality 3D visualisations in robotic-assisted surgery. Despite recent advancements in foundation model ada…
PitVQA++: Vector Matrix-Low-Rank Adaptation for Open-Ended Visual Question Answering in Pituitary Surgery
Runlong He, Danyal Z. Khan, Evangelos B. Mazomenos +4
Vision-Language Models (VLMs) in visual question answering (VQA) offer a unique opportunity to enhance intra-operative decision-making, promote intuitive interactions, and signific…
SHADeS: Self-supervised Monocular Depth Estimation Through Non-Lambertian Image Decomposition
Rema Daher, Francisco Vasconcelos, Danail Stoyanov
Purpose: Visual 3D scene reconstruction can support colonoscopy navigation. It can help in recognising which portions of the colon have been visualised and characterising the size…
SegCol Challenge: Semantic Segmentation for Tools and Fold Edges in Colonoscopy data
Xinwei Ju, Rema Daher, Razvan Caramalau +7
Improving the reliability and completeness of colonoscopic inspection is critical for reducing missed lesions and improving colorectal cancer prevention. Reliable scene understandi…
NCDD: Nearest Centroid Distance Deficit for Out-Of-Distribution Detection in Gastrointestinal Vision
Sandesh Pokhrel, Sanjay Bhandari, Sharib Ali +7
The integration of deep learning tools in gastrointestinal vision holds the potential for significant advancements in diagnosis, treatment, and overall patient care. A major challe…
RGB to Hyperspectral: Spectral Reconstruction for Enhanced Surgical Imaging
Tobias Czempiel, Alfie Roddan, Maria Leiloglou +5
This study investigates the reconstruction of hyperspectral signatures from RGB data to enhance surgical imaging, utilizing the publicly available HeiPorSPECTRAL dataset from porci…
Robotic Arm Platform for Multi-View Image Acquisition and 3D Reconstruction in Minimally Invasive Surgery
Alexander Saikia, Chiara Di Vece, Sierra Bonilla +6
Minimally invasive surgery (MIS) offers significant benefits such as reduced recovery time and minimised patient trauma, but poses challenges in visibility and access, making accur…
SurgicalGS: Dynamic 3D Gaussian Splatting for Accurate Robotic-Assisted Surgical Scene Reconstruction
Jialei Chen, Xin Zhang, Mobarakol Islam +4
Accurate 3D reconstruction of dynamic surgical scenes from endoscopic video is essential for robotic-assisted surgery. While recent 3D Gaussian Splatting methods have shown promise…
Automated Surgical Skill Assessment in Endoscopic Pituitary Surgery using Real-time Instrument Tracking on a High-fidelity Bench-top Phantom
Adrito Das, Bilal Sidiqi, Laurent Mennillo +10
Improved surgical skill is generally associated with improved patient outcomes, although assessment is subjective; labour-intensive; and requires domain specific expertise. Automat…
Mismatched: Evaluating the Limits of Image Matching Approaches and Benchmarks
Sierra Bonilla, Chiara Di Vece, Rema Daher +4
Three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction from two-dimensional images is an active research field in computer vision, with applications ranging from navigation and object tracking to s…
PitVis-2023 Challenge: Workflow Recognition in videos of Endoscopic Pituitary Surgery
Adrito Das, Danyal Z. Khan, Dimitrios Psychogyios +29
The field of computer vision applied to videos of minimally invasive surgery is ever-growing. Workflow recognition pertains to the automated recognition of various aspects of a sur…