Persistent shortages in the surgical workforce and inherent limitations of traditional training methods highlight the necessity of automated, data-driven approaches in surgical education. This study addresses these challenges by introducing a novel, explainable AI-powered framework for automated skill assessment, specifically focusing on cataract surgery.
Background: Laparoscopic camera navigation (LCN) is a critical skill, yet its current assessment typically relies on manual rating systems which are time-consuming and difficult to scale. Automated feedback could significantly enhance surgical training by providing immediate, standardized metrics.
arXiv:2606. 30657v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Surgical outcomes depend not only on patient factors and postoperative care but are also strongly influenced by the quality of the operation itself.
By Pietro Mascagni, Lalith Sharan, Deepak Alapatt, Nicolas Padoy
arXiv:2603. 27341v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent Artificial Intelligence (AI) models have matched or exceeded human experts in several benchmarks of biomedical task performance, but surgical benchmarks in particular are often missing from prominent medical benchmark suites.
By Kirill Skobelev, Eric Fithian, Yegor Baranovski, Jack Cook, Sandeep Angara, Shauna Otto, Zhuang-Fang Yi, John Zhu, Neeraj Mainkar, Margaux Masson-Forsythe, Daniel A. Donoho, X. Y. Han
arXiv:2608. 17519v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-based surgical skill assessment has shown strong in-domain results, yet a fundamental question remains unasked: do these models learn transferable representations of surgical proficiency, or do they merely encode dataset-specific visual patterns?
By Hanna Hoffmann, Felix von Bechtolsheim, Stefanie Speidel, Rebecca Hisey
arXiv:2608. 14015v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Understanding tens-of-minutes surgical videos requires long-horizon temporal reasoning, answering what happens before, after, or across stages of a procedure by grounding the question in visual evidence spread across time.
By Yingying Fan, Penghui Du, Leyan Zhu, Runze He, Zimeng Wu, Yuxuan Zhang, Liang Chen, Jiahao Xie, Jiangtang Wang, Shuai Shao, Anchao Yang, Yutong Bai, Yan Wang
We introduce SurgAtlas, the largest surgical video-language dataset to date, comprising 15,291 videos (2,391 hours) spanning 18 surgical specialties and over 5,000 procedure types, sourced entirely from publicly available YouTube content. SurgAtlas is also the first surgical video-language dataset to include open surgery at scale, with 6,182 open procedure videos alongside over 9,000 minimally invasive recordings, and the first to establish standardized benchmarks for open-surgery video understanding.
arXiv:2607. 13237v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Precise spatial-temporal annotation of laparoscopic videos is time-consuming and requires expert knowledge.
By Manasa Dendukuri, Matjaz Jogan, Daniel A. Hashimoto, Guiqiu Liao
arXiv:2608. 09861v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Audio-visual interaction is the standard for patient-physician consultations, enabling natural communication and effective assessment of illness through non-verbal cues.
By Mahvish Nagda, Jihyeon Lee, Matthew Thompson, Chunjong Park, Tim Strother, Valentin Li\'evin, Roma Ruparel, Akshay Goel, Teya Bergamaschi, Suhana Bedi, Meet Shah, Pavel Dubov, Liviu Panait, Toshiyuki Fukuzawa, Sam Schmidgall, Craig Schiff, Joseph Xu, Aliya Rysbek, Yana Lunts, Jan Freyberg, Rebecca Hemengway, Sunny Virmani, David Racz, Carey Radebaugh, Jo\"elle Barral, Kavi Goel, Dale R. Webster, Katherine Chou, Avinatan Hassidim, Yossi Matias, James Manyika, Gregory Wayne, Tao Tu, Yun Liu, Ethan Goh, Christina Chen, Ryutaro Tanno, Po-Hsuan Cameron Chen, Mike Schaekermann, Anil Palepu
AI video generation has advanced rapidly and entered widespread commercial use. As a result, quality differences among videos produced by state-of-the-art AI video generation models~(AIVGMs) have become increasingly difficult to discern using conventional evaluation criteria, such as visual fidelity and semantic instruction following.
arXiv:2608. 09111v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI video generation has advanced rapidly and entered widespread commercial use.
By Ziheng Jia, Jiaying Qian, Zicheng Zhang, Xiaorong Zhu, Lancheng Gao, Xiongkuo Min
arXiv:2608. 15580v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reliable endoscopic polyp reporting requires integrating quantitative lesion sizing, standardized Paris classification, and clinically meaningful morphological description within a single record.
By Ruijie Yang, Yan Zhu, Peiyao Fu, Siyuan Li, Te Luo, Zhihua Wang, Quanlin Li, Pinghong Zhou, Xian Yang, Shuo Wang