arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 25

Dense Structural Priors for Sparse Functional Landmark Localization in Surgical Videos

The paper presents a method for localizing functional surgical landmarks—specifically instrument tips and anchors—in surgical videos without requiring manual pixel-level mask annotations. It leverages vision foundation models, such as SAM 3, to generate dense structural priors through zero‑shot, point‑prompted masks, and refines landmark predictions with a lightweight, coarse‑to‑fine multi‑frame network. Experiments on 7,867 clips from 60 videos show that the approach achieves F1 scores of 72.4% for tip and 58.0% for anchor localization, with ablations confirming the benefits of structural priors and refinement stages.

By Chenyan Jing, Hao Ding, Lalithkumar Seenivasan, Jacob M. Delgado L\'opez, Mathias Unberath
arXiv Computer Vision
2d ago

AnyCXR: Human Anatomy Segmentation of Chest X-ray at Any Acquisition Position using Multi-stage Domain Randomized Synthetic Data with Imperfect Annotations and Conditional Joint Annotation Regularization Learning

AnyCXR is a unified framework that performs multi-organ segmentation on chest X-rays taken at any projection angle using only synthetic data. It employs a Multi-stage Domain Randomization engine to generate over 100,000 anatomically accurate synthetic radiographs from 3D CT volumes, and a Conditional Joint Annotation Regularization strategy to learn from partial, imperfect labels by enforcing anatomical consistency in a latent space. Trained solely on synthetic data, AnyCXR achieves strong zero-shot generalization on real-world datasets, accurately delineating 54 anatomical structures across PA, lateral, and oblique views, and supports downstream clinical tasks such as cardiothoracic ratio estimation, spine curvature assessment, and disease classification.

By Zifei Dong, Wenjie Wu, Jinkui Hao, Tianqi Chen, Ziqiao Weng, Bo Zhou
arXiv AI
Jun 17

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.

By Hongchao Shu, Roger D. Soberanis-Mukul, Hao Ding, Morgan Ringel, Mali Shen, Saif Iftekar Sayed, Hedyeh Rafii-Tari, Mathias Unberath
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
Sep 10

Novel Methods for Catheter and Guidewire Segmentation in X-ray Fluoroscopy under a Federated Learning Setting

The paper introduces a structure‑aware federated learning framework for segmenting catheters and guidewires in X‑ray fluoroscopy. It presents a new benchmark dataset, CathAction, and a shape‑sensitive loss that improves segmentation accuracy. The approach extends to federated learning, adding projected gradient descent for adversarial optimization, and includes a diffusion‑based synthetic data generator that boosts performance under data scarcity.

By Chayun Kongtongvattana