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most citedThe Endoscapes Dataset for Surgical Scene Segmentation, Object Detection, and Critical View of Safety Assessment: Official Splits and Benchmark

24 citations · 64 across the 17 of their papers we have counts for

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18 papers

cs.CV2026

SPIRIT: Spatio-temporal Pairwise Relational Modeling of Instrument-Tissue Interactions for Surgical Action Triplet Recognition

Saurav Sharma, Lorenzo Arboit, Nabani Banik +11

Fine-grained understanding of surgical activity is essential for context-aware assistance in the operating room, including safety monitoring, adverse event identification, and skil…

cs.CV2026

Where are they looking in the operating room?

Keqi Chen, Séraphin Baributsa, Lilien Schewski +5

Purpose: Gaze-following, the task of inferring where individuals are looking, has been widely studied in computer vision, advancing research in visual attention modeling, social sc…

cs.CV2026

Self-Supervised Uncalibrated Multi-View Video Anonymization in the Operating Room

Keqi Chen, Vinkle Srivastav, Armine Vardazaryan +3

Privacy preservation is a prerequisite for using video data in Operating Room (OR) research. Effective anonymization relies on the exhaustive localization of every individual; even…

cs.CV2026

DExTeR: Weakly Semi-Supervised Object Detection with Class and Instance Experts for Medical Imaging

Adrien Meyer, Didier Mutter, Nicolas Padoy

Detecting anatomical landmarks in medical imaging is essential for diagnosis and intervention guidance. However, object detection models rely on costly bounding box annotations, li…

cs.CV2025

State-Change Learning for Prediction of Future Events in Endoscopic Videos

Saurav Sharma, Chinedu Innocent Nwoye, Didier Mutter +1

Surgical future prediction, driven by real-time AI analysis of surgical video, is critical for operating room safety and efficiency. It provides actionable insights into upcoming e…

cs.CV2025

fine-CLIP: Enhancing Zero-Shot Fine-Grained Surgical Action Recognition with Vision-Language Models

Saurav Sharma, Didier Mutter, Nicolas Padoy

While vision-language models like CLIP have advanced zero-shot surgical phase recognition, they struggle with fine-grained surgical activities, especially action triplets. This lim…

cs.CV2025

Learning from Synchronization: Self-Supervised Uncalibrated Multi-View Person Association in Challenging Scenes

Keqi Chen, Vinkle Srivastav, Didier Mutter +1

Multi-view person association is a fundamental step towards multi-view analysis of human activities. Although the person re-identification features have been proven effective, they…

cs.CV2025

S4M: 4-points to Segment Anything

Adrien Meyer, Lorenzo Arboit, Giuseppe Massimiani +3

Purpose: The Segment Anything Model (SAM) promises to ease the annotation bottleneck in medical segmentation, but overlapping anatomy and blurred boundaries make its point prompts…

cs.CV2025

Multi-view Video-Pose Pretraining for Operating Room Surgical Activity Recognition

Idris Hamoud, Vinkle Srivastav, Muhammad Abdullah Jamal +3

Understanding the workflow of surgical procedures in complex operating rooms requires a deep understanding of the interactions between clinicians and their environment. Surgical ac…

cs.CV2025

When do they StOP?: A First Step Towards Automatically Identifying Team Communication in the Operating Room

Keqi Chen, Lilien Schewski, Vinkle Srivastav +5

Purpose: Surgical performance depends not only on surgeons' technical skills but also on team communication within and across the different professional groups present during the o…

cs.CV2025★ 6 cited

Early Operative Difficulty Assessment in Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy via Snapshot-Centric Video Analysis

Saurav Sharma, Maria Vannucci, Leonardo Pestana Legori +6

Purpose: Laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) operative difficulty (LCOD) is highly variable and influences outcomes. Despite extensive LC studies in surgical workflow analysis, limit…

eess.IV2024★ 16 cited

UltraSam: A Foundation Model for Ultrasound using Large Open-Access Segmentation Datasets

Adrien Meyer, Aditya Murali, Farahdiba Zarin +2

Purpose: Automated ultrasound image analysis is challenging due to anatomical complexity and limited annotated data. To tackle this, we take a data-centric approach, assembling the…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

CycleSAM: Few-Shot Surgical Scene Segmentation with Cycle- and Scene-Consistent Feature Matching

Aditya Murali, Farahdiba Zarin, Adrien Meyer +3

Surgical image segmentation is highly challenging, primarily due to scarcity of annotated data. Generalist prompted segmentation models like the Segment-Anything Model (SAM) can he…

cs.CV2024

Overcoming Dimensional Collapse in Self-supervised Contrastive Learning for Medical Image Segmentation

Jamshid Hassanpour, Vinkle Srivastav, Didier Mutter +1

Self-supervised learning (SSL) approaches have achieved great success when the amount of labeled data is limited. Within SSL, models learn robust feature representations by solving…

cs.CV2023★ 1 cited

ST(OR)2: Spatio-Temporal Object Level Reasoning for Activity Recognition in the Operating Room

Idris Hamoud, Muhammad Abdullah Jamal, Vinkle Srivastav +3

Surgical robotics holds much promise for improving patient safety and clinician experience in the Operating Room (OR). However, it also comes with new challenges, requiring strong…

cs.CV2023

Challenges in Multi-centric Generalization: Phase and Step Recognition in Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass Surgery

Joel L. Lavanchy, Sanat Ramesh, Diego Dall'Alba +7

Most studies on surgical activity recognition utilizing Artificial intelligence (AI) have focused mainly on recognizing one type of activity from small and mono-centric surgical vi…

cs.CV2023★ 16 cited

Encoding Surgical Videos as Latent Spatiotemporal Graphs for Object and Anatomy-Driven Reasoning

Aditya Murali, Deepak Alapatt, Pietro Mascagni +5

Recently, spatiotemporal graphs have emerged as a concise and elegant manner of representing video clips in an object-centric fashion, and have shown to be useful for downstream ta…

cs.CV2023★ 24 cited

The Endoscapes Dataset for Surgical Scene Segmentation, Object Detection, and Critical View of Safety Assessment: Official Splits and Benchmark

Aditya Murali, Deepak Alapatt, Pietro Mascagni +8

This technical report provides a detailed overview of Endoscapes, a dataset of laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) videos with highly intricate annotations targeted at automated asse…