4 papers
Federated EndoViT: Pretraining Vision Transformers via Federated Learning on Endoscopic Image Collections
Max Kirchner, Alexander C. Jenke, Sebastian Bodenstedt +5
Purpose: Data privacy regulations hinder the creation of generalizable foundation models (FMs) for surgery by preventing multi-institutional data aggregation. This study investigat…
PIVOTS: Aligning unseen Structures using Preoperative to Intraoperative Volume-To-Surface Registration for Liver Navigation
Peng Liu, Bianca Güttner, Yutong Su +16
Non-rigid registration is essential for Augmented Reality guided laparoscopic liver surgery by fusing preoperative information, such as tumor location and vascular structures, into…
Mission Balance: Generating Under-represented Class Samples using Video Diffusion Models
Danush Kumar Venkatesh, Isabel Funke, Micha Pfeiffer +5
Computer-assisted interventions can improve intra-operative guidance, particularly through deep learning methods that harness the spatiotemporal information in surgical videos. How…
Data Augmentation for Surgical Scene Segmentation with Anatomy-Aware Diffusion Models
Danush Kumar Venkatesh, Dominik Rivoir, Micha Pfeiffer +2
In computer-assisted surgery, automatically recognizing anatomical organs is crucial for understanding the surgical scene and providing intraoperative assistance. While machine lea…