2018 robotic scene segmentation challenge

M Allan, S Kondo, S Bodenstedt, S Leger… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
In 2015 we began a sub-challenge at the EndoVis workshop at MICCAI in Munich using
endoscope images of ex-vivo tissue with automatically generated annotations from robot …

Synthetic and real inputs for tool segmentation in robotic surgery

E Colleoni, P Edwards, D Stoyanov - International Conference on Medical …, 2020 - Springer
Semantic tool segmentation in surgical videos is important for surgical scene understanding
and computer-assisted interventions as well as for the development of robotic automation …

Exploring intra-and inter-video relation for surgical semantic scene segmentation

Y Jin, Y Yu, C Chen, Z Zhao, PA Heng… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Automatic surgical scene segmentation is fundamental for facilitating cognitive intelligence
in the modern operating theatre. Previous works rely on conventional aggregation modules …

Trasetr: track-to-segment transformer with contrastive query for instance-level instrument segmentation in robotic surgery

Z Zhao, Y Jin, PA Heng - 2022 International conference on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Surgical instrument segmentation-in general a pixel classification task-is fundamentally
crucial for promoting cognitive intelligence in robot-assisted surgery (RAS). However …

Surgical tool datasets for machine learning research: a survey

M Rodrigues, M Mayo, P Patros - International Journal of Computer Vision, 2022 - Springer
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 …

Matis: Masked-attention transformers for surgical instrument segmentation

N Ayobi, A Pérez-Rondón, S Rodríguez… - 2023 IEEE 20th …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose Masked-Attention Transformers for Surgical Instrument Segmentation (MATIS),
a two-stage, fully transformer-based method that leverages modern pixel-wise attention …

LSKANet: Long strip kernel attention network for robotic surgical scene segmentation

M Liu, Y Han, J Wang, C Wang, Y Wang… - … on Medical Imaging, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Surgical scene segmentation is a critical task in Robotic-assisted surgery. However, the
complexity of the surgical scene, which mainly includes local feature similarity (eg, between …

Task decomposition and synchronization for semantic biomedical image segmentation

X Ren, S Ahmad, L Zhang, L Xiang… - … on Image Processing, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Semantic segmentation is essentially important to biomedical image analysis. Many recent
works mainly focus on integrating the Fully Convolutional Network (FCN) architecture with …

A comprehensive survey on recent deep learning-based methods applied to surgical data

M Ali, RMG Pena, GO Ruiz, S Ali - arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.01435, 2022 - arxiv.org
Minimally invasive surgery is highly operator dependant with a lengthy procedural time
causing fatigue to surgeon and risks to patients such as injury to organs, infection, bleeding …

LACOSTE: Exploiting stereo and temporal contexts for surgical instrument segmentation

Q Wang, S Zhao, Z Xu, SK Zhou - Medical Image Analysis, 2025 - Elsevier
Surgical instrument segmentation is instrumental to minimally invasive surgeries and related
applications. Most previous methods formulate this task as single-frame-based instance …