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

Robotic-assisted surgery is now well established in clinical practice and has become the
gold-standard clinical treatment option for several clinical indications. The field of robotic …

This paper introduces SKiT, a fast Key information Transformer for phase recognition of
videos. Unlike previous methods that rely on complex models to capture long-term temporal …

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 …

Online surgical phase recognition plays a significant role towards building contextual tools
that could quantify performance and oversee the execution of surgical workflows. Current …

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

The eight-volume set LNCS 12901, 12902, 12903, 12904, 12905, 12906, 12907, and 12908
constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Medical Image …

Abstract Purpose of Review Robotic assistance systems for diagnosis and therapy have
become technically mature and widely available. Thus, they play an increasingly important …

Annotation of surgical video is important for establishing ground truth in surgical data
science endeavors that involve computer vision. With the growth of the field over the last …

This paper is a comprehensive survey of datasets for surgical tool detection and related
surgical data science and machine learning techniques and algorithms. The survey offers a …