4 papers
Bridging Vision and Language for Robust Context-Aware Surgical Point Tracking: The VL-SurgPT Dataset and Benchmark
Rulin Zhou, Wenlong He, An Wang +6
Accurate point tracking in surgical environments remains challenging due to complex visual conditions, including smoke occlusion, specular reflections, and tissue deformation. Whil…
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…
Point Tracking in Surgery--The 2024 Surgical Tattoos in Infrared (STIR) Challenge
Adam Schmidt, Mert Asim Karaoglu, Soham Sinha +37
Understanding tissue motion in surgery is crucial to enable applications in downstream tasks such as segmentation, 3D reconstruction, virtual tissue landmarking, autonomous probe-b…
Endo-TTAP: Robust Endoscopic Tissue Tracking via Multi-Facet Guided Attention and Hybrid Flow-point Supervision
Rulin Zhou, Wenlong He, An Wang +4
Accurate tissue point tracking in endoscopic videos is critical for robotic-assisted surgical navigation and scene understanding, but remains challenging due to complex deformation…