most citedComparative validation of surgical phase recognition, instrument keypoint estimation, and instrument instance segmentation in endoscopy: Results of the PhaKIR 2024 challenge

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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

Training-free Temporal Object Tracking in Surgical Videos

Subhadeep Koley, Abdolrahim Kadkhodamohammadi, Santiago Barbarisi +2

Purpose: In this paper, we present a novel approach for online object tracking in laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) surgical videos, targeting localisation and tracking of critical…

cs.CV2026

Confidence-aware Monocular Depth Estimation for Minimally Invasive Surgery

Muhammad Asad, Emanuele Colleoni, Pritesh Mehta +7

Purpose: Monocular depth estimation (MDE) is vital for scene understanding in minimally invasive surgery (MIS). However, endoscopic video sequences are often contaminated by smoke,…

cs.CV2025

Graph Neural Networks for Surgical Scene Segmentation

Yihan Li, Nikhil Churamani, Maria Robu +2

Purpose: Accurate identification of hepatocystic anatomy is critical to preventing surgical complications during laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Deep learning models often struggle w…

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

Zero-shot Monocular Metric Depth for Endoscopic Images

Nicolas Toussaint, Emanuele Colleoni, Ricardo Sanchez-Matilla +5

Monocular relative and metric depth estimation has seen a tremendous boost in the last few years due to the sharp advancements in foundation models and in particular transformer ba…

cs.CV2025

Temporal Cluster Assignment for Efficient Real-Time Video Segmentation

Ka-Wai Yung, Felix J. S. Bragman, Jialang Xu +3

Vision Transformers have substantially advanced the capabilities of segmentation models across both image and video domains. Among them, the Swin Transformer stands out for its abi…

cs.CV2025★ 4 cited

Comparative validation of surgical phase recognition, instrument keypoint estimation, and instrument instance segmentation in endoscopy: Results of the PhaKIR 2024 challenge

Tobias Rueckert, David Rauber, Raphaela Maerkl +58

Reliable recognition and localization of surgical instruments in endoscopic video recordings are foundational for a wide range of applications in computer- and robot-assisted minim…