In recent years, tremendous progress has been made in surgical practice for example with
Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS). To overcome challenges coming from deported eye-to …

Minimally invasive medicine has become mainstream because of its crucial clinical
significance in providing a low risk of postoperative complications, limited blood loss, short …

In recent years, digital endoscopy has established as key technology for medical screenings
and minimally invasive surgery. Since then, various research communities with manifold …

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 …

Abstract Introduction The EVA (Endoscopic Video Analysis) tracking system is a new system
for extracting motions of laparoscopic instruments based on nonobtrusive video tracking …

Many keyhole interventions rely on bi-manual handling of surgical instruments, forcing the
main surgeon to rely on a second surgeon to act as a camera assistant. In addition to the …

Background: Worldwide propagation of minimally invasive surgeries (MIS) is hindered by
their drawback of indirect observation and manipulation, while monitoring of surgical …

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study is twofold:(1) to derive a workflow consensus from
multiple clinical activity logs and (2) to detect workflow outliers automatically and without …

Surgical tool segmentation in endoscopic images is the first step towards pose estimation
and (sub-) task automation in challenging minimally invasive surgical operations. While …

Purpose Interoperability of medical devices based on standards starts to establish in the
operating room (OR). Devices share their data and control functionalities. Yet, the OR …