3 papers
cs.CV2026
Latent-Action-Guided Video-Language Feature Learning for Surgical Instrument-Tissue Interaction Recognition
Jiajun Cheng, Subarna Tripathi, Sainan Liu +2
Recognizing instrument--tissue interactions is essential for context-aware surgical AI. Vision-language models offer a natural way to inject semantic structure into surgical repres…
cs.CV2026
TrajPred: Trajectory-Conditioned Joint Embedding Prediction for Surgical Instrument-Tissue Interaction Recognition in Vision-Language Models
Jiajun Cheng, Xiaofan Yu, Subarna Tripathi +2
Recognizing instruments' interactions with tissues is essential for building context-aware AI assistants in robotic surgery. Vision-language models (VLMs) have opened a new avenue…
cs.CV2025
SurgXBench: Explainable Vision-Language Model Benchmark for Surgery
Jiajun Cheng, Xianwu Zhao, Sainan Liu +5
Innovations in digital intelligence are transforming robotic surgery with more informed decision-making. Real-time awareness of surgical instrument presence and actions (e.g., cutt…