Accurate and objective performance assessment is essential for both trainees and certified
surgeons. However, existing methods can be time consuming, labor intensive, and subject …

Hundreds of millions of operations are performed worldwide each year, and the rising
uptake in minimally invasive surgery has enabled fiber optic cameras and robots to become …

The intraoperative activity of a surgeon has substantial impact on postoperative outcomes.
However, for most surgical procedures, the details of intraoperative surgical actions, which …

Telesurgical robotics, as a technical solution for robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery
(RAMIS), has become the first domain within medicosurgical robotics that achieved a true …

In this paper we introduce OperA, a transformer-based model that accurately predicts
surgical phases from long video sequences. A novel attention regularization loss …

The use of digital technology is increasing rapidly across surgical specialities, yet there is no
consensus for the term 'digital surgery'. This is critical as digital health technologies present …

Purpose Surgical workflow and skill analysis are key technologies for the next generation of
cognitive surgical assistance systems. These systems could increase the safety of the …

Image-based navigation is widely considered the next frontier of minimally invasive surgery.
It is believed that image-based navigation will increase the access to reproducible, safe, and …

The field of human space travel is in the midst of a dramatic revolution. Upcoming missions
are looking to push the boundaries of space travel, with plans to travel for longer distances …

Recent advancements in deep learning methods bring computer-assistance a step closer to
fulfilling promises of safer surgical procedures. However, the generalizability of such …