4 papers
SurgCheck: Do Vision-Language Models Really Look at Images in Surgical VQA?
Jongmin Shin, Ka Young Kim, Eunki Cho +2
Purpose: Vision-language models (VLMs) have shown promising performance in surgical visual question answering (VQA). However, existing surgical VQA datasets often contain linguisti…
TopoOR: A Unified Topological Scene Representation for the Operating Room
Tony Danjun Wang, Ka Young Kim, Tolga Birdal +2
Surgical Scene Graphs abstract the complexity of surgical operating rooms (OR) into a structure of entities and their relations, but existing paradigms suffer from strictly dyadic…
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…
Towards Holistic Surgical Scene Graph
Jongmin Shin, Enki Cho, Ka Young Kim +3
Surgical scene understanding is crucial for computer-assisted intervention systems, requiring visual comprehension of surgical scenes that involves diverse elements such as surgica…