arXiv:2607. 10551v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accurate geometric calibration is essential for fluoroscopy-guided spinal imaging, digitally reconstructed radiograph (DRR) generation, and 2D--3D vertebral registration.
By Lin Li, Chaochao Zhou, Benjamin Aubert, Junlin Guo, Junchao Zhu
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...
By Ahmed Aboelela, Johannes Barcsay, Jana Friedhof, Miguel Gon\c{c}alves, Alexander Hann, Katharina Breininger
arXiv:2610.07561v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Image-guided surgery (IGS) depends on accurate tracking of surgical instruments to provide real-time navigation relative to anatomical structures. Comm...
By George Sideris, Justin Cree, Andrew Stirling, Mamadou Ly, \'Etienne L\'eger, D. Louis Collins
The paper introduces PICO, an end-to-end trainable model for 6DoF surgical tool pose estimation that uses multi-task learning to predict segmentation, depth, and pose parameters. It incorporates two geometry-aware proxy tasks—a projection loss and a point-to-point loss—to enforce consistency in 2D and 3D spaces, improving accuracy and robustness. Evaluated on the SurgRIPE dataset, PICO achieves strong performance, ranking second in rotation accuracy and maintaining competitive translation results, especially under occlusion.
By Lucy Fothergill, Pietro Valdastri, Dominic Jones, Duygu Sarikaya
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.
Accurate execution of preoperative plans in corrective femoral osteotomies remains challenging. Current techniques are limited by variable accuracy, invasiveness, and radiation exposure, with free-hand methods and patient-specific instrumentation (PSI) often requiring >30 and >6 fluoroscopic images, respectively.