arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 21

Artificial Intelligence for Workflow Analysis in Colorectal Surgery: A Multicentric, Cross-Procedural Development and Generalization Study

arXiv:2608. 20154v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Minimally invasive colorectal surgeries (MIS-CRS) are characterised by significant variability and inconsistent outcomes.

By Pietro Mascagni, Julia Alekseenko, Pooja P Jain, Marta Goglia, Andrea Balla, Ludovica Baldari, Gianfranco Silecchia, Claudio Fiorillo, Vincenzo Tondolo, Salvador Morales-Conde, Luigi Boni, Sergio Alfieri, Nicolas Padoy
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 14

OphBiWSSD: Scaling Temporal Action Localization in Ophthalmic Surgeries with Bidirectional Weight-tied State Space Duality

OphBiWSSD is a new framework for temporal action localization in ophthalmic surgeries that uses Bidirectional State Space Duality to avoid the quadratic memory cost of Transformers. It employs a weight‑tied selective scan that incorporates both past and future surgical context, enabling linear‑time global synthesis of non‑causal temporal cues. On the OphNet benchmark, OphBiWSSD achieves state‑of‑the‑art mean Average Precisions of 44.42 % for phases and 43.08 % for operations, outperforming baselines by 6.80 % and 6.66 % respectively.

By Yang Liu, Qionghong Ma, Joongwon Chae, Lihui Luo, Yibing Shen, Yulin Zhuo, Yingting Zhu, Jiashu Chang, Xiaoyun Zhong, Dongmei Yu, Peter E. Lobie, Peiwu Qin, Chengming Yang
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 16

TEDi: Temporal Memory-Enhanced and Denoising Transformer for Surgical Instrument Segmentation

TEDi is a Temporal memory-Enhanced and Denoising Transformer designed for surgical instrument segmentation. It introduces a query-level memory bank with a memory search enhancement encoder to incorporate discriminative representations from past frames, and a temporal consistency denoising module that builds a cross‑frame semantic anchor to stabilize predictions. Experiments on EndoVis 2017 and EndoVis 2018 show that TEDi outperforms existing state‑of‑the‑art methods, indicating its effectiveness for computer‑assisted surgery.

By Jiahong Yuan, Weiming Mi, Tao Zhang, Haoyin Zhou
arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 27

From Presence Labels to Bounding Boxes: Can Multimodal Large Language Models Scale Surgical Instrument Localization?

arXiv:2610.34218v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Spatial localization of surgical instruments through bounding-box annotations is a foundational component of surgical scene understanding, supporting d...

By Mohamed Hamdy, Muraam Abdel-Ghani, Fatmaelzahraa Ahmed, Sifna Nasar, Mariam Ahmed, Khalid Al-Jalham, Abdulaziz Al-Ali, Shidin Balakrishnan