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most citedPreserving Privacy in Surgical Video Analysis Using Artificial Intelligence: A Deep Learning Classifier to Identify Out-of-Body Scenes in Endoscopic Videos

23 citations · 44 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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12 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

Multimodal Assessment of Pancreatic Cancer Resectability Using Deep Learning

Vincent Ochs, Christoph Kuemmerli, Florentin Bieder +12

Accurate determination of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) resectability relies on evaluating how the tumor interacts with major peripancreatic vessels on CT imaging, yet ex…

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

Leveraging Generic Foundation Models for Multimodal Surgical Data Analysis

Simon Pezold, Jérôme A. Kurylec, Jan S. Liechti +2

We investigate how both the adaptation of a generic foundation model via transfer learning and the integration of complementary modalities from the operating room (OR) can support…

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

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.CV2024★ 9 cited

Surgical Text-to-Image Generation

Chinedu Innocent Nwoye, Rupak Bose, Kareem Elgohary +5

Acquiring surgical data for research and development is significantly hindered by high annotation costs and practical and ethical constraints. Utilizing synthetically generated ima…

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★ 1 cited

Advancing Surgical VQA with Scene Graph Knowledge

Kun Yuan, Manasi Kattel, Joel L. Lavanchy +3

Modern operating room is becoming increasingly complex, requiring innovative intra-operative support systems. While the focus of surgical data science has largely been on video ana…

cs.CV2023★ 1 cited

CholecTrack20: A Multi-Perspective Tracking Dataset for Surgical Tools

Chinedu Innocent Nwoye, Kareem Elgohary, Anvita Srinivas +3

Tool tracking in surgical videos is essential for advancing computer-assisted interventions, such as skill assessment, safety zone estimation, and human-machine collaboration. Howe…

cs.CV2023★ 9 cited

Learning Multi-modal Representations by Watching Hundreds of Surgical Video Lectures

Kun Yuan, Vinkle Srivastav, Tong Yu +5

Recent advancements in surgical computer vision applications have been driven by vision-only models, which do not explicitly integrate the rich semantics of language into their des…

cs.CV2023★ 23 cited

Preserving Privacy in Surgical Video Analysis Using Artificial Intelligence: A Deep Learning Classifier to Identify Out-of-Body Scenes in Endoscopic Videos

Joël L. Lavanchy, Armine Vardazaryan, Pietro Mascagni +3

Objective: To develop and validate a deep learning model for the identification of out-of-body images in endoscopic videos. Background: Surgical video analysis facilitates educatio…