4 papers
SurgTEMP: Temporal-Aware Surgical Video Question Answering with Text-guided Visual Memory for Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy
Shi Li, Vinkle Srivastav, Nicolas Chanel +6
Surgical procedures are inherently complex and risky, requiring extensive expertise and constant focus to navigate evolving intraoperative scenes. Computer-assisted systems such as…
From Panel to Pixel: Zoom-In Vision-Language Pretraining from Biomedical Scientific Literature
Kun Yuan, Min Woo Sun, Zhen Chen +7
There is a growing interest in developing strong biomedical vision-language models. A popular approach to achieve robust representations is to use web-scale scientific data. Howeve…
Where It Moves, It Matters: Referring Surgical Instrument Segmentation via Motion
Meng Wei, Kun Yuan, Shi Li +7
Enabling intuitive, language-driven interaction with surgical scenes is a critical step toward intelligent operating rooms and autonomous surgical robotic assistance. However, the…
Recognizing Surgical Phases Anywhere: Few-Shot Test-time Adaptation and Task-graph Guided Refinement
Kun Yuan, Tingxuan Chen, Shi Li +9
The complexity and diversity of surgical workflows, driven by heterogeneous operating room settings, institutional protocols, and anatomical variability, present a significant chal…