3 papers
cs.CV2026
Cholec80-port: A Geometrically Consistent Trocar Port Segmentation Dataset for Robust Surgical Scene Understanding
Shunsuke Kikuchi, Atsushi Kouno, Hiroki Matsuzaki
Trocar ports are camera-fixed, pseudo-static structures that can persistently occlude laparoscopic views and attract disproportionate feature points due to specular, textured surfa…
cs.CV2025
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
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…