Methods and datasets for segmentation of minimally invasive surgical instruments in endoscopic images and videos: A review of the state of the art

T Rueckert, D Rueckert, C Palm - Computers in Biology and Medicine, 2024 - Elsevier
In the field of computer-and robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery, enormous progress
has been made in recent years based on the recognition of surgical instruments in …

Sam meets robotic surgery: an empirical study on generalization, robustness and adaptation

A Wang, M Islam, M Xu, Y Zhang, H Ren - International Conference on …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract The Segment Anything Model (SAM) serves as a fundamental model for semantic
segmentation and demonstrates remarkable generalization capabilities across a wide range …

Transformer-based disease identification for small-scale imbalanced capsule endoscopy dataset

L Bai, L Wang, T Chen, Y Zhao, H Ren - Electronics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Vision Transformer (ViT) is emerging as a new leader in computer vision with its outstanding
performance in many tasks (eg, ImageNet-22k, JFT-300M). However, the success of ViT …

Video-instrument synergistic network for referring video instrument segmentation in robotic surgery

H Wang, G Yang, S Zhang, J Qin, Y Guo… - … on Medical Imaging, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Surgical instrument segmentation is fundamentally important for facilitating cognitive
intelligence in robot-assisted surgery. Although existing methods have achieved accurate …

Transformer-based 3D U-Net for pulmonary vessel segmentation and artery-vein separation from CT images

Y Wu, S Qi, M Wang, S Zhao, H Pang, J Xu… - Medical & Biological …, 2023 - Springer
Transformer-based methods have led to the revolutionizing of multiple computer vision
tasks. Inspired by this, we propose a transformer-based network with a channel-enhanced …

[HTML][HTML] Digital twins as a unifying framework for surgical data science: the enabling role of geometric scene understanding

H Ding, L Seenivasan, BD Killeen, SM Cho… - Artificial Intelligence …, 2024 - oaepublish.com
Surgical data science is devoted to enhancing the quality, safety, and efficacy of
interventional healthcare. While the use of powerful machine learning algorithms is …

Curriculum-based augmented fourier domain adaptation for robust medical image segmentation

A Wang, M Islam, M Xu, H Ren - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Accurate and robust medical image segmentation is fundamental and crucial for enhancing
the autonomy of computer-aided diagnosis and intervention systems. Medical data …

Sam 2 in robotic surgery: An empirical evaluation for robustness and generalization in surgical video segmentation

J Yu, A Wang, W Dong, M Xu, M Islam, J Wang… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
The recent Segment Anything Model (SAM) 2 has demonstrated remarkable foundational
competence in semantic segmentation, with its memory mechanism and mask decoder …

SME: Spatial-Spectral Mutual Teaching and Ensemble Learning for Scribble-Supervised Polyp Segmentation

A Wang, M Xu, Y Zhang, M Islam, H Ren - International Conference on …, 2023 - Springer
Fully-supervised polyp segmentation has accomplished significant triumphs over the years
in advancing the early diagnosis of colorectal cancer. However, label-efficient solutions from …

Strategies to Improve Real-World Applicability of Laparoscopic Anatomy Segmentation Models

FR Kolbinger, J He, J Ma, F Zhu - Proceedings of the IEEE …, 2024 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Accurate identification and localization of anatomical structures of varying size and
appearance in laparoscopic imaging are necessary to leverage the potential of computer …