Modern endoscopy relies on digital technology, from high-resolution imaging sensors and
displays to electronics connecting configurable illumination and actuation systems for …

Objective: Surgical activity recognition is a fundamental step in computer-assisted
interventions. This paper reviews the state-of-the-art in methods for automatic recognition of …

Surgical skills have a great influence on surgical safety and patients' well-being. Traditional
assessment of surgical skills involves strenuous manual efforts, which lacks efficiency and …

Automatically recognising surgical gestures from surgical data is an important building block
of automated activity recognition and analytics, technical skill assessment, intra-operative …

Surgical skill assessment currently hinges on the manual observations of senior surgeons,
and the assessment process is inherently time-consuming and subjective. Hence, there is a …

Considering the complexity of modeling diverse actions of athletes, action quality
assessment (AQA) in sports is a challenging task. A common solution is to tackle this …

Long-term action quality assessment is a task of evaluating how well an action is performed,
namely, estimating a quality score from a long video. Intuitively, longterm actions generally …

Maintaining proper form while exercising is important for preventing injuries and maximizing
muscle mass gains. Detecting errors in workout form naturally requires estimating human's …

Background There is a need to standardize training in robotic surgery, including objective
assessment for accreditation. This systematic review aimed to identify objective tools for …

This letter proposes a novel video-based, contrastive regression architecture, Contra-
Sformer, for automated surgical skill assessment in robot-assisted surgery. The proposed …