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cs.CV2026

Towards Real-Time Autonomous Navigation: Transformer-Based Catheter Tip Tracking in Fluoroscopy

Harry Robertshaw, Yanghe Hao, Weiyuan Deng +6

Purpose: Mechanical thrombectomy (MT) improves stroke outcomes, but is limited by a lack of local treatment access. Widespread distribution of reinforcement learning (RL)-based rob…

cs.CV2026

Stabilizing Temporal Inference Dynamics for Online Surgical Phase Recognition

Yang Liu, Ning Zhu, Jingjing Peng +4

Online Surgical Phase Recognition (SPR) models can reach high frame-wise accuracy, yet their predictions often lack temporal stability, fragmenting workflow understanding and reduc…

cs.CV2025★ 2 cited

UltraFlwr -- An Efficient Federated Surgical Object Detection Framework

Yang Li, Soumya Snigdha Kundu, Maxence Boels +6

Surgical object detection in laparoscopic videos enables real-time instrument identification for workflow analysis and skills assessment, but training robust models such as You Onl…

cs.CV2024

SWAG: Long-term Surgical Workflow Prediction with Generative-based Anticipation

Maxence Boels, Yang Liu, Prokar Dasgupta +2

While existing approaches excel at recognising current surgical phases, they provide limited foresight and intraoperative guidance into future procedural steps. Similarly, current…

cs.CV2024

ReCAP: Recursive Cross Attention Network for Pseudo-Label Generation in Robotic Surgical Skill Assessment

Julien Quarez, Marc Modat, Sebastien Ourselin +2

In surgical skill assessment, the Objective Structured Assessments of Technical Skills (OSATS) and Global Rating Scale (GRS) are well-established tools for evaluating surgeons duri…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

DDSB: An Unsupervised and Training-free Method for Phase Detection in Echocardiography

Zhenyu Bu, Yang Liu, Jiayu Huo +7

Accurate identification of End-Diastolic (ED) and End-Systolic (ES) frames is key for cardiac function assessment through echocardiography. However, traditional methods face severa…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

SuPRA: Surgical Phase Recognition and Anticipation for Intra-Operative Planning

Maxence Boels, Yang Liu, Prokar Dasgupta +2

Intra-operative recognition of surgical phases holds significant potential for enhancing real-time contextual awareness in the operating room. However, we argue that online recogni…

cs.CV2024

Motion-Boundary-Driven Unsupervised Surgical Instrument Segmentation in Low-Quality Optical Flow

Yang Liu, Peiran Wu, Jiayu Huo +7

Unsupervised video-based surgical instrument segmentation has the potential to accelerate the adoption of robot-assisted procedures by reducing the reliance on manual annotations.…

cs.CV2024

ArcSin: Adaptive ranged cosine Similarity injected noise for Language-Driven Visual Tasks

Yang Liu, Xiaomin Yu, Gongyu Zhang +5

"A data scientist is tasked with developing a low-cost surgical VQA system for a 2-month workshop. Due to data sensitivity, she collects 50 hours of surgical video from a hospital,…