most citedCurrent validation practice undermines surgical AI development

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cs.CV2026

HeiCo-FOCUS: A Clinically Grounded Dataset for Long-Context Video Understanding

Leon Mayer, Lucas Luttner, Patrick Godau +42

Recent advances in Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have led to rapid progress in video understanding across a wide range of benchmark tasks. However, existing evaluations largely foc…

cs.CV2026

nnFoundation: 3D Foundation Models for Radiology

Constantin Ulrich Harsy, Tassilo Wald, Karol Gotkowski +80

Radiological artificial intelligence has advanced rapidly, yet most systems remain narrowly task-specific, data-intensive, and fragile under domain shift. Foundation models promise…

cs.CV2025

6 Fingers, 1 Kidney: Natural Adversarial Medical Images Reveal Critical Weaknesses of Vision-Language Models

Leon Mayer, Piotr Kalinowski, Caroline Ebersbach +6

Vision-language models (VLMs) are increasingly integrated into clinical workflows. However, existing benchmarks primarily assess performance on common anatomical presentations and…

q-bio.OT2025★ 1 cited

Current validation practice undermines surgical AI development

Annika Reinke, Ziying O. Li, Minu D. Tizabi +98

Surgical data science (SDS) is rapidly advancing, yet clinical adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) in surgery remains limited, with inadequate validation as an important contr…

cs.CV2025

Challenging Vision-Language Models with Surgical Data: A New Dataset and Broad Benchmarking Study

Leon Mayer, Tim Rädsch, Dominik Michael +8

While traditional computer vision models have historically struggled to generalize to endoscopic domains, the emergence of foundation models has shown promising cross-domain perfor…

cs.CV2025

Bridging vision language model (VLM) evaluation gaps with a framework for scalable and cost-effective benchmark generation

Tim Rädsch, Leon Mayer, Simon Pavicic +8

Reliable evaluation of AI models is critical for scientific progress and practical application. While existing VLM benchmarks provide general insights into model capabilities, thei…