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most citedScaling up self-supervised learning for improved surgical foundation models

10 citations · 26 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

cs.CV2026

Surgical Anatomy Recognition with Context Learning using Foundation Representations

Ronald L. P. D. de Jong, Tim J. M. Jaspers, Raf A. H. Vervoort +9

Accurate recognition of anatomical structures is essential for safe and effective minimally invasive surgery (MIS), yet it remains underexplored in surgical computer vision due to…

cs.CV2026

Object Tokens as a Bridge Between Segmentation and Visual Question Answering in Robotic Surgery

Yiping Li, Ronald de Jong, Romy van Jaarsveld +5

Visual Question Answering (VQA) in robotic surgery, referred to as surgical VQA, requires high-level understanding of complex surgical scenes and the integration of visual percepti…

cs.CV2025

SAM-Fed: SAM-Guided Federated Semi-Supervised Learning for Medical Image Segmentation

Sahar Nasirihaghighi, Negin Ghamsarian, Yiping Li +3

Medical image segmentation is clinically important, yet data privacy and the cost of expert annotation limit the availability of labeled data. Federated semi-supervised learning (F…

eess.IV2025

Analysis of Transferability Estimation Metrics for Surgical Phase Recognition

Prabhant Singh, Yiping Li, Yasmina Al Khalil

Fine-tuning pre-trained models has become a cornerstone of modern machine learning, allowing practitioners to achieve high performance with limited labeled data. In surgical video…

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…

cs.CV2025

SemiVT-Surge: Semi-Supervised Video Transformer for Surgical Phase Recognition

Yiping Li, Ronald de Jong, Sahar Nasirihaghighi +8

Accurate surgical phase recognition is crucial for computer-assisted interventions and surgical video analysis. Annotating long surgical videos is labor-intensive, driving research…

cs.CV2025★ 10 cited

Scaling up self-supervised learning for improved surgical foundation models

Tim J. M. Jaspers, Ronald L. P. D. de Jong, Yiping Li +12

Foundation models have revolutionized computer vision by achieving vastly superior performance across diverse tasks through large-scale pretraining on extensive datasets. However,…

cs.CV2025★ 7 cited

SurgRIPE challenge: Benchmark of Surgical Robot Instrument Pose Estimation

Haozheng Xu, Alistair Weld, Chi Xu +16

Accurate instrument pose estimation is a crucial step towards the future of robotic surgery, enabling applications such as autonomous surgical task execution. Vision-based methods…

cs.CV2024

Benchmarking Pretrained Attention-based Models for Real-Time Recognition in Robot-Assisted Esophagectomy

Ronald L. P. D. de Jong, Yasmina al Khalil, Tim J. M. Jaspers +7

Esophageal cancer is among the most common types of cancer worldwide. It is traditionally treated using open esophagectomy, but in recent years, robot-assisted minimally invasive e…

cs.CV2024

Benchmarking and Enhancing Surgical Phase Recognition Models for Robotic-Assisted Esophagectomy

Yiping Li, Romy van Jaarsveld, Ronald de Jong +6

Robotic-assisted minimally invasive esophagectomy (RAMIE) is a recognized treatment for esophageal cancer, offering better patient outcomes compared to open surgery and traditional…

cs.CV2024★ 5 cited

Exploring the Effect of Dataset Diversity in Self-Supervised Learning for Surgical Computer Vision

Tim J. M. Jaspers, Ronald L. P. D. de Jong, Yasmina Al Khalil +9

Over the past decade, computer vision applications in minimally invasive surgery have rapidly increased. Despite this growth, the impact of surgical computer vision remains limited…