arXiv:2608. 04472v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The development of foundation models (FMs) is crucial for advancing endoscopic image analysis.
By Zhenyu Yi, Jianwei Xu, Yue Hu, Zhongwei Qiu, Sijing Li, Liang Huang, Bin Lv, Ling Zhang, Yingda Xia
arXiv:2608. 07116v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Camera localization in bronchoscopy remains a challenging problem due to stringent accuracy requirements, real-time constraints, and limited training data.
By Lumin Chen, Qingyao Tian, Jinpeng Li, Haoyu Jiang, Huai Liao, Xinyan Huang, Hongbin Liu, Dong Yi
arXiv:2411. 17790v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Accurate 3D mapping in endoscopy enables quantitative, holistic lesion characterization within the gastrointestinal (GI) tract, requiring reliable depth and pose estimation.
By Ziang Xu, Bin Li, Yang Hu, Chenyu Zhang, James East, Sharib Ali, Jens Rittscher
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:2607. 27154v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: CT vision-language foundation models have demonstrated promising performance across downstream tasks, but are typically trained with whole-volume representations that dilute fine-grained anatomical signals.
By Roshan Kenia, Stephanie L McNamara, William Lotter
We present FoundationGeo, a two-stage framework that explicitly bridges relative and metric prediction via spatial calibration and principled data design. Stage 1 learns a high-fidelity, affine-invariant geometry model by initializing with DINOv3 and training on a curated 10.