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20162026
most cited2018 Robotic Scene Segmentation Challenge

118 citations · 250 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

cs.CV2026

Training-free Temporal Object Tracking in Surgical Videos

Subhadeep Koley, Abdolrahim Kadkhodamohammadi, Santiago Barbarisi +2

Purpose: In this paper, we present a novel approach for online object tracking in laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) surgical videos, targeting localisation and tracking of critical…

cs.CV2026

Confidence-aware Monocular Depth Estimation for Minimally Invasive Surgery

Muhammad Asad, Emanuele Colleoni, Pritesh Mehta +7

Purpose: Monocular depth estimation (MDE) is vital for scene understanding in minimally invasive surgery (MIS). However, endoscopic video sequences are often contaminated by smoke,…

cs.CV2025

Graph Neural Networks for Surgical Scene Segmentation

Yihan Li, Nikhil Churamani, Maria Robu +2

Purpose: Accurate identification of hepatocystic anatomy is critical to preventing surgical complications during laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Deep learning models often struggle w…

cs.CV2025

Learning from Single Timestamps: Complexity Estimation in Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy

Dimitrios Anastasiou, Santiago Barbarisi, Lucy Culshaw +4

Purpose: Accurate assessment of surgical complexity is essential in Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy (LC), where severe inflammation is associated with longer operative times and incre…

cs.CV2025

Zero-shot Monocular Metric Depth for Endoscopic Images

Nicolas Toussaint, Emanuele Colleoni, Ricardo Sanchez-Matilla +5

Monocular relative and metric depth estimation has seen a tremendous boost in the last few years due to the sharp advancements in foundation models and in particular transformer ba…

cs.CV2025

Temporal Cluster Assignment for Efficient Real-Time Video Segmentation

Ka-Wai Yung, Felix J. S. Bragman, Jialang Xu +3

Vision Transformers have substantially advanced the capabilities of segmentation models across both image and video domains. Among them, the Swin Transformer stands out for its abi…

cs.CV2025★ 4 cited

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…

cs.CV2023★ 1 cited

A spatio-temporal network for video semantic segmentation in surgical videos

Maria Grammatikopoulou, Ricardo Sanchez-Matilla, Felix Bragman +5

Semantic segmentation in surgical videos has applications in intra-operative guidance, post-operative analytics and surgical education. Segmentation models need to provide accurate…

eess.IV2023

Self-Knowledge Distillation for Surgical Phase Recognition

Jinglu Zhang, Santiago Barbarisi, Abdolrahim Kadkhodamohammadi +2

Purpose: Advances in surgical phase recognition are generally led by training deeper networks. Rather than going further with a more complex solution, we believe that current model…

cs.CV2022★ 17 cited

Biomedical image analysis competitions: The state of current participation practice

Matthias Eisenmann, Annika Reinke, Vivienn Weru +352

The number of international benchmarking competitions is steadily increasing in various fields of machine learning (ML) research and practice. So far, however, little is known abou…

cs.CV2022★ 78 cited

CholecTriplet2021: A benchmark challenge for surgical action triplet recognition

Chinedu Innocent Nwoye, Deepak Alapatt, Tong Yu +59

Context-aware decision support in the operating room can foster surgical safety and efficiency by leveraging real-time feedback from surgical workflow analysis. Most existing works…

eess.IV2021

2020 CATARACTS Semantic Segmentation Challenge

Imanol Luengo, Maria Grammatikopoulou, Rahim Mohammadi +37

Surgical scene segmentation is essential for anatomy and instrument localization which can be further used to assess tissue-instrument interactions during a surgical procedure. In…

cs.CV2020★ 118 cited

2018 Robotic Scene Segmentation Challenge

Max Allan, Satoshi Kondo, Sebastian Bodenstedt +38

In 2015 we began a sub-challenge at the EndoVis workshop at MICCAI in Munich using endoscope images of ex-vivo tissue with automatically generated annotations from robot forward ki…

cs.CV2019★ 17 cited

CaDIS: Cataract Dataset for Image Segmentation

Maria Grammatikopoulou, Evangello Flouty, Abdolrahim Kadkhodamohammadi +5

Video feedback provides a wealth of information about surgical procedures and is the main sensory cue for surgeons. Scene understanding is crucial to computer assisted intervention…

cs.CV2018★ 11 cited

DeepPhase: Surgical Phase Recognition in CATARACTS Videos

Odysseas Zisimopoulos, Evangello Flouty, Imanol Luengo +4

Automated surgical workflow analysis and understanding can assist surgeons to standardize procedures and enhance post-surgical assessment and indexing, as well as, interventional m…

cs.CV2016★ 4 cited

Hierarchical Piecewise-Constant Super-regions

Imanol Luengo, Mark Basham, Andrew P. French

Recent applications in computer vision have come to heavily rely on superpixel over-segmentation as a pre-processing step for higher level vision tasks, such as object recognition,…