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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 · 79 across the 19 of their papers we have counts for

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21 papers

cs.CV2026

A Surgical Foundation Model Reveals Task-Dependent Label Efficiency

Florian Philipp Stilz, Lorenzo Arboit, Vinkle Srivastav +6

Developing label-efficient models is a central challenge in surgical AI due to the high cost and scarcity of expert annotation. While self-supervised foundation models adapt well t…

cs.CV2026

Artificial Intelligence for Workflow Analysis in Colorectal Surgery: A Multicentric, Cross-Procedural Development and Generalization Study

Pietro Mascagni, Julia Alekseenko, Pooja P Jain +10

Minimally invasive colorectal surgeries (MIS-CRS) are characterised by significant variability and inconsistent outcomes. ColoWorkflow, a tool for the video-based assessment (VBA)…

cs.HC2026

Optimizing Human-Machine Interface for Real-Time AI Support in the Operating Room: the CVS Copilot

Lorenzo Arboit, Nicolas Chanel, Aditya Murali +2

Artificial intelligence (AI) systems for automated Critical View of Safety (CVS) assessment in laparoscopic cholecystectomy are nearing clinical translation. Beyond algorithmic per…

cs.CV2026

GEN-Guard: Correcting Generalization Failures for Deployable Federated Surgical AI

Julia Alekseenko, Pietro Mascagni, AI4SafeChole Consortium +1

Federated Learning (FL) in surgical video AI enables collaborative model training without sharing sensitive data. However, standard evaluation practices - selecting the "best" glob…

cs.CY2026

AI for Quality Assurance in the Operating Room

Pietro Mascagni, Lalith Sharan, Deepak Alapatt +1

Surgical outcomes depend not only on patient factors and postoperative care but are also strongly influenced by the quality of the operation itself. Yet, for much of mod-ern surger…

cs.CV2026

SurgTEMP: Temporal-Aware Surgical Video Question Answering with Text-guided Visual Memory for Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy

Shi Li, Vinkle Srivastav, Shih-Min Yin +7

Surgical procedures are inherently complex and risky, requiring extensive expertise and constant focus to navigate evolving intraoperative scenes. Computer-assisted systems such as…

eess.IV2025

Artificial Intelligence for the Assessment of Peritoneal Carcinosis during Diagnostic Laparoscopy for Advanced Ovarian Cancer

Riccardo Oliva, Farahdiba Zarin, Alice Zampolini Faustini +9

Advanced Ovarian Cancer (AOC) is often diagnosed at an advanced stage with peritoneal carcinosis (PC). Fagotti score (FS) assessment at diagnostic laparoscopy (DL) guides treatment…

cs.CV2025

Endoshare: A Publicly Available, Surgeons-Friendly Solution to De-Identify and Manage Surgical Videos

Lorenzo Arboit, Dennis N. Schneider, Britty Baby +3

Video-based assessment and surgical data science can advance surgical training, research, and quality improvement, yet adoption remains limited by heterogeneous recording formats a…

cs.CV2025

Expert Consensus-based Video-Based Assessment Tool for Workflow Analysis in Minimally Invasive Colorectal Surgery: Development and Validation of ColoWorkflow

Pooja P Jain, Pietro Mascagni, Giuseppe Massimiani +14

Minimally invasive colorectal surgery is characterized by procedural variability, a difficult learning curve, and complications that impact quality and outcomes. Video-based assess…

cs.CV2025★ 3 cited

The SAGES Critical View of Safety Challenge: A Global Benchmark for AI-Assisted Surgical Quality Assessment

Deepak Alapatt, Jennifer Eckhoff, Zhiliang Lyu +38

Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) for surgical quality assessment promise to democratize access to expertise, with applications in training, guidance, and accreditation. Thi…

cs.CV2025

Multi-modal Representations for Fine-grained Multi-label Critical View of Safety Recognition

Britty Baby, Vinkle Srivastav, Pooja P. Jain +3

The Critical View of Safety (CVS) is crucial for safe laparoscopic cholecystectomy, yet assessing CVS criteria remains a complex and challenging task, even for experts. Traditional…

cs.CV2025

Learning from Sparse Point Labels for Dense Carcinosis Localization in Advanced Ovarian Cancer Assessment

Farahdiba Zarin, Riccardo Oliva, Vinkle Srivastav +7

Learning from sparse labels is a challenge commonplace in the medical domain. This is due to numerous factors, such as annotation cost, and is especially true for newly introduced…

cs.CY2025★ 14 cited

Surgeons Awareness, Expectations, and Involvement with Artificial Intelligence: a Survey Pre and Post the GPT Era

Lorenzo Arboit, Dennis N. Schneider, Toby Collins +7

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming medicine, with generative AI models like ChatGPT reshaping perceptions of its potential. This study examines surgeons' awareness, expec…

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…

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.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

Optimizing Latent Graph Representations of Surgical Scenes for Zero-Shot Domain Transfer

Siddhant Satyanaik, Aditya Murali, Deepak Alapatt +3

Purpose: Advances in deep learning have resulted in effective models for surgical video analysis; however, these models often fail to generalize across medical centers due to domai…

cs.CV2023★ 6 cited

MOSaiC: a Web-based Platform for Collaborative Medical Video Assessment and Annotation

Jean-Paul Mazellier, Antoine Boujon, Méline Bour-Lang +5

This technical report presents MOSaiC 3.6.2, a web-based collaborative platform designed for the annotation and evaluation of medical videos. MOSaiC is engineered to facilitate vid…

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…

cs.CV2023

Jumpstarting Surgical Computer Vision

Deepak Alapatt, Aditya Murali, Vinkle Srivastav +3

Consensus amongst researchers and industry points to a lack of large, representative annotated datasets as the biggest obstacle to progress in the field of surgical data science. A…