9 papers
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…
Exploring Stiffness Gradient Effects in Magnetically Induced Metamorphic Materials via Continuum Simulation and Validation
Wentao Shi, Yang Yang, Yiming Huang +1
Magnetic soft continuum robots are capable of bending with remote control in confined space environments, and they have been applied in various bioengineering contexts. As one type…
Learning to Perform Low-Contact Autonomous Nasotracheal Intubation by Recurrent Action-Confidence Chunking with Transformer
Yu Tian, Ruoyi Hao, Yiming Huang +4
Nasotracheal intubation (NTI) is critical for establishing artificial airways in clinical anesthesia and critical care. Current manual methods face significant challenges, includin…
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…
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…
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…