Positive margins in head and neck oncologic surgery require mapping specimen-side pathology findings to the patient resection bed. This is challenging because pathologists identify the positive margin on slices of the resected, deformed specimen, while surgeons must relocate the corresponding site on the resection bed using only verbal descriptions and no visual guidance.
arXiv:2607. 17810v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accurate 3D--2D liver registration, which aligns preoperative 3D models to partial, view-dependent intraoperative surface observations, is critical for AR-guided laparoscopic surgery but remains challenging due to severe occlusion, limited visibility, and the lack of 3D ground-truth supervision.
arXiv:2608. 07564v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In digital dentistry and oral surgery, the registration of jawbone CT and intraoral scanner (IOS) data is essential for integrating internal bone structure with high-resolution dental surface geometry.
arXiv:2609.24560v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Confocal Laser Endomicroscopy (CLE) provides real-time, cellular-resolution optical biopsy but has a narrow field of view, which image mosaicing can ex...
LapaTrack-3D is a real‑time 6 DoF tracking algorithm designed for monocular laparoscopic surgery, aligning intra‑operative video with pre‑operative CT data. It modifies the ORB‑SLAM2 framework with four key changes: fast initialization using a primitive 3D shape, a pseudo‑segmentation strategy to isolate the target organ, incorporation of the 3D shape as a geometric prior in pose graph optimization, and enhanced imaging via a modified Multi‑Scale Retinex with Chromaticity Preservation algorithm. Experiments on in‑vivo and ex‑vivo data show robust tracking under challenging conditions such as poor illumination, fast motion, and partial visibility, achieving 13 Hz on 1280×720 video.
arXiv:2606. 07658v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Maximal safe resection is the primary objective in glioma surgery.
The paper presents a camera‑pose‑free stereo endoscopic method for recovering tissue deformation by modeling geometry as a 3D point‑derivative map and deformation as a 3D displacement‑local deformation map. It optimizes inter‑frame deformation in a camera‑centric setting, eliminating the need for camera pose estimation, and introduces a canonical map for online geometry and deformation optimization. Experiments on in‑vivo and ex‑vivo laparoscopic data show accurate 3D reconstruction (≈0.37–0.39 mm surface distance) even under occlusion, and the method can estimate surface strain distributions during manipulation.
The paper introduces DAMM‑Net++, a 2.5D neural network for thoracic organ‑at‑risk and target volume segmentation that tackles inter‑slice surface incoherence, small low‑contrast target failure, and lack of per‑case reliability signals. Its core is an anatomy‑change‑aware bidirectional selective state‑space memory that propagates context across axial slices, complemented by a boundary‑aware decoder and an uncertainty head for calibrated per‑voxel confidence. Evaluations on 2,146 patients, an external cohort, and a reader study show high Dice scores (0.955), low HD95 (3.78 mm), significant time savings (75‑80 %) for clinicians, and improved junior‑reader performance, with the system fully integrated into a clinical workflow.
arXiv:2609.39010v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Objective: Head and neck (HN) proton therapy spans six to seven weeks of anatomical change, while offline replanning takes about a week. We present a...
arXiv:2608.22131v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Craniosynostosis severity analysis increasingly relies on statistical shape models (SSMs) to quantify cranial morphology, but most existing workflows...
arXiv:2606. 28628v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Localized generative editing needs localized evaluation: full-image identity metrics are structurally confounded under hard-composited edits.
arXiv:2609.16186v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autonomous soft-tissue cancer surgery has been limited to interventions on organ surfaces, because current systems cannot perceive and adapt to anato...
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.