5 papers
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…
SemiVT-Surge: Semi-Supervised Video Transformer for Surgical Phase Recognition
Yiping Li, Ronald de Jong, Sahar Nasirihaghighi +8
Accurate surgical phase recognition is crucial for computer-assisted interventions and surgical video analysis. Annotating long surgical videos is labor-intensive, driving research…
Scaling up self-supervised learning for improved surgical foundation models
Tim J. M. Jaspers, Ronald L. P. D. de Jong, Yiping Li +12
Foundation models have revolutionized computer vision by achieving vastly superior performance across diverse tasks through large-scale pretraining on extensive datasets. However,…
Benchmarking Pretrained Attention-based Models for Real-Time Recognition in Robot-Assisted Esophagectomy
Ronald L. P. D. de Jong, Yasmina al Khalil, Tim J. M. Jaspers +7
Esophageal cancer is among the most common types of cancer worldwide. It is traditionally treated using open esophagectomy, but in recent years, robot-assisted minimally invasive e…
Benchmarking and Enhancing Surgical Phase Recognition Models for Robotic-Assisted Esophagectomy
Yiping Li, Romy van Jaarsveld, Ronald de Jong +6
Robotic-assisted minimally invasive esophagectomy (RAMIE) is a recognized treatment for esophageal cancer, offering better patient outcomes compared to open surgery and traditional…