6 papers
Current validation practice undermines surgical AI development
Annika Reinke, Ziying O. Li, Minu D. Tizabi +97
Surgical data science (SDS) is rapidly advancing, yet clinical adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) in surgery remains limited, with inadequate validation as an important contr…
Generalized Recognition of Basic Surgical Actions Enables Skill Assessment and Vision-Language-Model-based Surgical Planning
Mengya Xu, Daiyun Shen, Jie Zhang +19
Artificial intelligence, imaging, and large language models have the potential to transform surgical practice, training, and automation. Understanding and modeling of basic surgica…
Surg-R1: A Hierarchical Reasoning Foundation Model for Scalable and Interpretable Surgical Decision Support with Multi-Center Clinical Validation
Jian Jiang, Chenxi Lin, Yiming Gu +24
Surgical scene understanding demands not only accurate predictions but also interpretable reasoning that surgeons can verify against clinical expertise. However, existing surgical…
Cosmos-H-Surgical: Learning Surgical Robot Policies from Videos via World Modeling
Yufan He, Pengfei Guo, Mengya Xu +11
Data scarcity remains a fundamental barrier to achieving fully autonomous surgical robots. While large scale vision language action (VLA) models have shown impressive generalizatio…
SurGo-R1: Benchmarking and Modeling Contextual Reasoning for Operative Zone in Surgical Video
Guanyi Qin, Xiaozhen Wang, Zhu Zhuo +7
Minimally invasive surgery has dramatically improved patient operative outcomes, yet identifying safe operative zones remains challenging in critical phases, requiring surgeons to…
Large-scale Self-supervised Video Foundation Model for Intelligent Surgery
Shu Yang, Fengtao Zhou, Leon Mayer +16
Computer-Assisted Intervention (CAI) has the potential to revolutionize modern surgery, with surgical scene understanding serving as a critical component in supporting decision-mak…