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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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32 papers

cs.RO2026

Trajectory Divergence Horizon Decision for Reliable Dual-Arm Surgical Subtask Manipulation

Mingwu Su, Guankun Wang, Jinsong Lin +8

Surgical robotic systems are increasingly being adopted as clinical workload rises, motivating autonomous solutions for repetitive manipulation subtasks. Learning-based controllers…

cs.AI2026

SurgLAT: Surgical Latent Attention Tracking for Depth-Aware Robotic Laparoscope Control

Rulin Zhou, Qiujie Song, Yujie Ma +10

Autonomous laparoscopic camera control requires continuous understanding of the surgeon's operative intent in dynamic surgical scenes, where the target operative region is not a st…

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

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…

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.RO2026★ 1 cited

Open-H-Embodiment: A Large-Scale Dataset for Enabling Foundation Models in Medical Robotics

Open-H-Embodiment Consortium, :, Nigel Nelson +213

Autonomous medical robots hold promise to improve patient outcomes, reduce provider workload, democratize access to care, and enable superhuman precision. However, autonomous medic…

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.CV2026

SurgAtt-Tracker: Online Surgical Attention Tracking via Temporal Proposal Reranking and Motion-Aware Refinement

Rulin Zhou, Guankun Wang, An Wang +12

Accurate and stable field-of-view (FoV) guidance is critical for safe and efficient minimally invasive surgery, yet existing approaches often conflate visual attention estimation w…

cs.CV2026

MedScope: Incentivizing "Think with Videos" for Clinical Reasoning via Coarse-to-Fine Tool Calling

Wenjie Li, Yujie Zhang, Haoran Sun +11

Long-form clinical videos are central to visual evidence-based decision-making, with growing importance for applications such as surgical robotics and related settings. However, cu…

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.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…

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

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…

cs.RO2025★ 2 cited

EndoVLA: Dual-Phase Vision-Language-Action Model for Autonomous Tracking in Endoscopy

Chi Kit Ng, Long Bai, Guankun Wang +6

In endoscopic procedures, autonomous tracking of abnormal regions and following circumferential cutting markers can significantly reduce the cognitive burden on endoscopists. Howev…

cs.CV2025

Multimodal Graph Representation Learning for Robust Surgical Workflow Recognition with Adversarial Feature Disentanglement

Long Bai, Boyi Ma, Ruohan Wang +8

Surgical workflow recognition is vital for automating tasks, supporting decision-making, and training novice surgeons, ultimately improving patient safety and standardizing procedu…

cs.CV2025★ 2 cited

Can DeepSeek Reason Like a Surgeon? An Empirical Evaluation for Vision-Language Understanding in Robotic-Assisted Surgery

Boyi Ma, Yanguang Zhao, Jie Wang +5

The DeepSeek models have shown exceptional performance in general scene understanding, question-answering (QA), and text generation tasks, owing to their efficient training paradig…

cs.CV2025★ 3 cited

EndoChat: Grounded Multimodal Large Language Model for Endoscopic Surgery

Guankun Wang, Long Bai, Junyi Wang +13

Recently, Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated their immense potential in computer-aided diagnosis and decision-making. In the context of robotic-assisted sur…

eess.IV2024

TSUBF-Net: Trans-Spatial UNet-like Network with Bi-direction Fusion for Segmentation of Adenoid Hypertrophy in CT

Rulin Zhou, Yingjie Feng, Guankun Wang +4

Adenoid hypertrophy stands as a common cause of obstructive sleep apnea-hypopnea syndrome in children. It is characterized by snoring, nasal congestion, and growth disorders. Compu…

cs.RO2024

ETSM: Automating Dissection Trajectory Suggestion and Confidence Map-Based Safety Margin Prediction for Robot-assisted Endoscopic Submucosal Dissection

Mengya Xu, Wenjin Mo, Guankun Wang +7

Robot-assisted Endoscopic Submucosal Dissection (ESD) improves the surgical procedure by providing a more comprehensive view through advanced robotic instruments and bimanual opera…

cs.CV2024

PDZSeg: Adapting the Foundation Model for Dissection Zone Segmentation with Visual Prompts in Robot-assisted Endoscopic Submucosal Dissection

Mengya Xu, Wenjin Mo, Guankun Wang +5

Purpose: Endoscopic surgical environments present challenges for dissection zone segmentation due to unclear boundaries between tissue types, leading to segmentation errors where m…

cs.CV2024★ 5 cited

CoPESD: A Multi-Level Surgical Motion Dataset for Training Large Vision-Language Models to Co-Pilot Endoscopic Submucosal Dissection

Guankun Wang, Han Xiao, Huxin Gao +6

submucosal dissection (ESD) enables rapid resection of large lesions, minimizing recurrence rates and improving long-term overall survival. Despite these advantages, ESD is technic…

cs.CV2024

Surgical-VQLA++: Adversarial Contrastive Learning for Calibrated Robust Visual Question-Localized Answering in Robotic Surgery

Long Bai, Guankun Wang, Mobarakol Islam +3

Medical visual question answering (VQA) bridges the gap between visual information and clinical decision-making, enabling doctors to extract understanding from clinical images and…

cs.CV2024★ 6 cited

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

Guankun Wang, Long Bai, Wan Jun Nah +7

Recent advancements in Surgical Visual Question Answering (Surgical-VQA) and related region grounding have shown great promise for robotic and medical applications, addressing the…