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New AI technique could make minimally invasive surgeries safer and more precise

A new AI technique named xvr enables patient‑specific use of X‑ray imaging for surgical navigation, potentially improving the safety and precision of minimally invasive procedures. The method is applicable in fields such as orthopedics and neurosurgery, where accurate guidance is critical.

arXiv AI
Aug 11

Enhanced Real-Time 6-DOF Extended Reality Catheter Tracking for Evaluating Potential Improvement in Efficiency, Precision, and Depth Perception for Cardiac Interventions

arXiv:2608. 07606v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Despite advances in 3D ultrasound, most percutaneous cardiac interventions still rely on 2D visualization, limiting depth perception and spatial understanding.

By Mohsen Annabestani, Sandhya Sriram, Andrew Kuzemczak, S. Chiu Wong, Alexandros Sigaras, Bobak Mosadegh
arXiv AI
Jul 15

BAT-RM: A Boundary-Aware Transformer with Region-Aware Multi-Directional Mamba for Clinically Deployed Cervical Cancer Radiotherapy Auto-Contouring

arXiv:2607. 11949v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present a clinically deployed end-to-end auto-contouring system for cervical cancer radiotherapy planning, anchored by the Boundary-Aware Transformer with Region-Aware Mamba (BAT-RM), a hybrid architecture that integrates Sobel-gated boundary attention, a linear-time, multi-directional Mamba module for long-range context, and a boundary-skeleton-guided fusion gate.

By Istiak Ahmed, Kazi Shahriar Sanjid, Galib Ahmed, Md. Tanzim Hossain, Md. Anwarul Islam, Shahrukh Khan, Md. Ashrif Rahman Arian, Md. Nishan Khan, Md. Misbah Khan, S M Hasibul Hoque, Rahnuma Shahrin Rista, Md. Jobairul Islam, Sheikh Anisul Haque, Md Arifur Rahman, Syed Md. Akram Hussain, Syeda Nashra, Sayeed Shafayet Chowdhury, Md. Mostafa Kamal Sarker, M. Monir Uddin
arXiv AI
Aug 26

Predicting Radiologist Expertise from 3D Gaze Patterns During CT Interpretation

The study introduces a gaze-informed transformer framework that classifies radiologist expertise during thoracic CT interpretation by integrating eye‑tracking data into volumetric feature learning. Using a DINOv2 backbone, the model incorporates a learnable log‑space bias in self‑attention and gaze‑weighted pooling of patch embeddings. Trained on 182 CT reading sessions from five radiologists, it achieved an ROC‑AUC of 0.91 and an F1 score of 0.86, outperforming adapted baseline methods.

By Leila Khaertdinova, Anna Anikina, Claudia Mello-Thoms, Bulat Ibragimov
arXiv AI
Aug 19

Learning Where and What to Lift for Bi-planar X-ray-to-CT Reconstruction

The paper introduces LiftXR, a geometry‑guided framework that first reconstructs a 3D anatomical layout from bi‑planar X‑ray images and then uses this layout to guide CT volume reconstruction. An anatomical parser refines the layout by analyzing the reconstructed CT, enabling region‑specific intensity calibration. Experiments on two public datasets show LiftXR surpasses recent X‑ray‑to‑CT methods and improves downstream segmentation performance.

By Yifei Wu, Yicheng Wu, Qiang Ma, Qi Chen, Renyang Gu, Xinyu Liu, Yongsheng Pan, Yong Xia