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most citedSurgical-LVLM: Learning to Adapt Large Vision-Language Model for Grounded Visual Question Answering in Robotic Surgery

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eess.IV2026

Morphological Decoupling-Based Skeletal Classification for Clinical Assessment of Malocclusion

Zhichun Jin, Zhicheng He, Hao Xu +4

Malocclusion skeletal grading is a fundamental task in orthodontics, critical for diagnosis and treatment planning. Traditionally, cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) is used for…

cs.AI2026

Surg-UniWorld: A Unified Surgical World Model with Multimodal Control Experts

Rulin Zhou, Wanhao Liu, Guoheng Ma +8

Controllable surgical world models can provide a generative foundation for surgical artificial intelligence and simulation by synthesizing realistic instrument--tissue interactions…

cs.CV2026

Parameter-Efficient Adaptation of SAM3 for Prompt-Driven Surgical Concept Segmentation

Changjing Liu, Yiming Huang, Beilei Cui +5

Efficient surgical segmentation empowers clinical diagnosis, intraoperative monitoring, and downstream robotic pipelines for reconstruction and simulation. Although prompt-driven f…

cs.CV2026

GeoCFNet: Geometry-Aware Confidence Field Network for Robot-Assisted Endoscopic Submucosal Dissection

Rui Tang, Guankun Wang, Long Bai +5

Advanced surgical robotics has made robot-assisted endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) a promising approach for the en-bloc resection of large lesions, with the potential to red…

eess.IV2026

DaX: Learning General Pathology Representations Across Scales

Bokai Zhao, Yiyang Zhang, Long Bai +3

Computational pathology requires visual representations that transfer across diverse clinical endpoints and remain robust to variation in magnification, staining, scanner type, sli…

cs.RO2026

How can reasoning capability empower the AI copilot robot in endoscopic surgery

Guankun Wang, Long Bai, Hongliang Ren

Reasoning capability has significantly advanced complex logical inference and robotic decision-making in general domains. However, its potential in the Artificial Intelligence (AI)…

cs.CV2026

SurgOnAir: Hierarchy-Aware Real-Time Surgical Video Commentary

Jingyi He, Yue Zhou, Long Bai +3

Understanding surgical workflow in real time is fundamental for intelligent surgical embodiment, where AI systems continuously perceive and respond as surgery proceeds. In the oper…

cs.CV2026

EndoGSim: Physics-Aware 4D Dynamic Endoscopic Scene Simulations via MLLM-Guided Gaussian Splatting

Changjing Liu, Yiming Huang, Long Bai +2

In robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery, high-fidelity dynamic endoscopic scene reconstruction and simulation are crucial to enhancing downstream tasks and advancing surgical…

cs.CV2026

Geometry OR Tracker: Universal Geometric Operating Room Tracking

Yihua Shao, Kang Chen, Feng Xue +6

In operating rooms (OR), world-scale multi-view 3D tracking supports downstream applications such as surgeon behavior recognition, where physically meaningful quantities such as di…

cs.RO2026

TMR-VLA:Vision-Language-Action Model for Magnetic Motion Control of Tri-leg Silicone-based Soft Robot

Ruijie Tang, Chi Kit Ng, Kaixuan Wu +5

In-vivo environments, magnetically actuated soft robots offer advantages such as wireless operation and precise control, showing promising potential for painless detection and ther…

cs.RO2026

GeoLanG: Geometry-Aware Language-Guided Grasping with Unified RGB-D Multimodal Learning

Rui Tang, Guankun Wang, Long Bai +6

Language-guided grasping has emerged as a promising paradigm for enabling robots to identify and manipulate target objects through natural language instructions, yet it remains hig…

cs.CV2026

Where It Moves, It Matters: Referring Surgical Instrument Segmentation via Motion

Meng Wei, Kun Yuan, Shi Li +7

Enabling intuitive, language-driven interaction with surgical scenes is a critical step toward intelligent operating rooms and autonomous surgical robotic assistance. However, the…

cs.CV2025

More than Segmentation: Benchmarking SAM 3 for Segmentation, 3D Perception, and Reconstruction in Robotic Surgery

Wenzhen Dong, Jieming Yu, Yiming Huang +5

The recent SAM 3 and SAM 3D have introduced significant advancements over the predecessor, SAM 2, particularly with the integration of language-based segmentation and enhanced 3D p…

cs.CV2025

NeuroABench: A Multimodal Evaluation Benchmark for Neurosurgical Anatomy Identification

Ziyang Song, Zelin Zang, Xiaofan Ye +7

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown significant potential in surgical video understanding. With improved zero-shot performance and more effective human-machine inte…

eess.IV2025

EndoIR: Degradation-Agnostic All-in-One Endoscopic Image Restoration via Noise-Aware Routing Diffusion

Tong Chen, Xinyu Ma, Long Bai +3

Endoscopic images often suffer from diverse and co-occurring degradations such as low lighting, smoke, and bleeding, which obscure critical clinical details. Existing restoration m…

cs.CV2025★ 1 cited

Does DINOv3 Set a New Medical Vision Standard? Benchmarking 2D and 3D Classification, Segmentation, and Registration

Che Liu, Yinda Chen, Haoyuan Shi +21

The advent of large-scale vision foundation models, pre-trained on diverse natural images, has marked a paradigm shift in computer vision. However, how the frontier vision foundati…

cs.CV2025

Recognizing Surgical Phases Anywhere: Few-Shot Test-time Adaptation and Task-graph Guided Refinement

Kun Yuan, Tingxuan Chen, Shi Li +9

The complexity and diversity of surgical workflows, driven by heterogeneous operating room settings, institutional protocols, and anatomical variability, present a significant chal…

cs.CV2025

Geo-RepNet: Geometry-Aware Representation Learning for Surgical Phase Recognition in Endoscopic Submucosal Dissection

Rui Tang, Haochen Yin, Guankun Wang +5

Surgical phase recognition plays a critical role in developing intelligent assistance systems for minimally invasive procedures such as Endoscopic Submucosal Dissection (ESD). Howe…

cs.CV2025★ 4 cited

Comparative validation of surgical phase recognition, instrument keypoint estimation, and instrument instance segmentation in endoscopy: Results of the PhaKIR 2024 challenge

Tobias Rueckert, David Rauber, Raphaela Maerkl +58

Reliable recognition and localization of surgical instruments in endoscopic video recordings are foundational for a wide range of applications in computer- and robot-assisted minim…

eess.IV2025

SurgTPGS: Semantic 3D Surgical Scene Understanding with Text Promptable Gaussian Splatting

Yiming Huang, Long Bai, Beilei Cui +6

In contemporary surgical research and practice, accurately comprehending 3D surgical scenes with text-promptable capabilities is particularly crucial for surgical planning and real…

cs.CV2025

Endo-4DGX: Robust Endoscopic Scene Reconstruction and Illumination Correction with Gaussian Splatting

Yiming Huang, Long Bai, Beilei Cui +7

Accurate reconstruction of soft tissue is crucial for advancing automation in image-guided robotic surgery. The recent 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) techniques and their variants, 4…

cs.RO2025

CapsDT: Diffusion-Transformer for Capsule Robot Manipulation

Xiting He, Mingwu Su, Xinqi Jiang +3

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have emerged as a prominent research area, showcasing significant potential across a variety of applications. However, their performance in endo…

cs.CV2025

EndoARSS: Adapting Spatially-Aware Foundation Model for Efficient Activity Recognition and Semantic Segmentation in Endoscopic Surgery

Guankun Wang, Rui Tang, Mengya Xu +3

Endoscopic surgery is the gold standard for robotic-assisted minimally invasive surgery, offering significant advantages in early disease detection and precise interventions. Howev…

cs.CV2025

SurgVidLM: Towards Multi-grained Surgical Video Understanding with Large Language Model

Guankun Wang, Junyi Wang, Wenjin Mo +11

Surgical scene understanding is critical for surgical training and robotic decision-making in robot-assisted surgery. Recent advances in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) ha…