2 papers
cs.CV2026
SUREON: A Benchmark and Vision-Language-Model for Surgical Reasoning
Alejandra Perez, Anita Rau, Lee White +4
Surgeons don't just see -- they interpret. When an expert observes a surgical scene, they understand not only what instrument is being used, but why it was chosen, what risk it pos…
cs.CV2026
On the Role of Depth in Surgical Vision Foundation Models: An Empirical Study of RGB-D Pre-training
John J. Han, Adam Schmidt, Muhammad Abdullah Jamal +4
Vision foundation models (VFMs) have emerged as powerful tools for surgical scene understanding. However, current approaches predominantly rely on unimodal RGB pre-training, overlo…