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Safe Robotic Capsule Cleaning with Integrated Transpupillary and Intraocular Optical Coherence Tomography
Yu-Ting Lai, Yasamin Foroutani, Aya Barzelay, Tsu-Chin Tsao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13650

Safe Robotic Capsule Cleaning with Integrated Transpupillary and Intraocular Optical Coherence Tomography
Secondary cataract is one of the most common complications of vision loss due to the proliferation of residual lens materials that naturally grow on the lens capsule after cataract surgery. A potential treatment is capsule cleaning, a surgical procedure that requires enhanced visualization of the entire capsule and tool manipulation on the thin membrane. This article presents a robotic system capable of performing the capsule cleaning procedure by integrating a standard transpupillary and an in…

StepAL: Step-aware Active Learning for Cataract Surgical Videos
Nisarg A. Shah, Bardia Safaei, Shameema Sikder, S. Swaroop Vedula, Vishal M. Patel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22059

StepAL: Step-aware Active Learning for Cataract Surgical Videos
Active learning (AL) can reduce annotation costs in surgical video analysis while maintaining model performance. However, traditional AL methods, developed for images or short video clips, are suboptimal for surgical step recognition due to inter-step dependencies within long, untrimmed surgical videos. These methods typically select individual frames or clips for labeling, which is ineffective for surgical videos where annotators require the context of the entire video for annotation. To addre…