arXiv AI

Geometry-Consistent Endoscopic Representations for Image-Guided Navigation via Structured Foundation Model Adaptation

arXiv:2606. 17340v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accurate vision-based navigation in monocular endoscopy is difficult due to limited depth cues, weak tissue texture, non-rigid deformation, and substantial appearance variation across domains, all of which complicate pose estimation, depth prediction, and image-to-anatomy alignment.

arXiv AI
Aug 10

Representation-driven Endoscopic Visual Embedding Alignment for Latent Generation

arXiv:2608. 07176v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Developing foundation generative models for endoscopy is limited by the gap between natural and clinical images and the computational cost of training large Diffusion Transformers.

By Francisco Caetano, Tim J. M. Jaspers, Haiko Middeljans, Martijn R. Jong, Rixta A. H. van Eijck van Heslinga, Floor Slooter, Albert J. de Groof, Jacques J. Bergman, Peter H. N. De With, Fons van der Sommen
arXiv AI
Jun 3

Anatomy-Anchored Self-Supervision: Distilling Vision Foundation Models for Invariant Ultrasound Representation

arXiv:2605. 25402v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Self-supervised pre-training paradigm has gained increasing prominence for learning transferable representations in medical imaging, yet existing methods for ultrasound (US) images operate at the image or frame level, overlooking the anatomical context for clinical-aligned representation learning.

By Chunzheng Zhu, Yijun Wang, Jianxin Lin, Feng Wang, Hongwei Wang, Lei Zhao, Shengli Li, Kenli Li
arXiv AI
Jul 21

Vis2Reg: Visibility-Aware Landmark-Free Geometric 3D--2D Registration for Liver Laparoscopy

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.

By Jiaming Feng, Xukun Zhang, Shahid Farid, Sharib Ali