12 papers
OSS: Open Suturing Skills Vision-Based Assessment Challenge 2024-2025
Hanna Hoffmann, Setareh Bady, Claas de Boer +54
Achieving high levels of surgical skill through effective training is essential for optimal patient outcomes. Automated, data-driven skill assessment holds significant potential to…
Depth Augmented and FE Free 3D/2D Liver Registration for Laparoscopic Liver AR
Hanyuan Zhang, Lucas He, Runlong He +6
Augmented reality (AR) guidance in laparoscopic liver surgery requires accurate registration of preoperative 3D models to intraoperative 2D video, but remains challenging due to pa…
Warm-Started Reinforcement Learning for Iterative 3D/2D Liver Registration
Hanyuan Zhang, Lucas He, Zijie Cheng +5
Registration between preoperative CT and intraoperative laparoscopic video plays a crucial role in augmented reality (AR) guidance for minimally invasive surgery. Learning-based me…
CoRe-DA: Contrastive Regression for Unsupervised Domain Adaptation in Surgical Skill Assessment
Dimitrios Anastasiou, Razvan Caramalau, Jialang Xu +6
Vision-based surgical skill assessment (SSA) enables objective and scalable evaluation of operative performance. Progress in this field is constrained by the high cost and time dem…
Design, Modelling and Characterisation of a Miniature Fibre-Reinforced Soft Bending Actuator for Endoluminal Interventions
Xiangyi Tan, Aoife McDonald-Bowyer, Danail Stoyanov +1
Miniaturised soft pneumatic actuators are crucial for robotic intervention within highly constrained anatomical pathways. This work presents the design and validation of a fibre-re…
TemporalDoRA: Temporal PEFT for Robust Surgical Video Question Answering
Luca Carlini, Chiara Lena, Cesare Hassan +4
Surgical Video Question Answering (VideoQA) requires accurate temporal grounding while remaining robust to natural variation in how clinicians phrase questions, where linguistic bi…