SurgRIPE challenge: Benchmark of Surgical Robot Instrument Pose Estimation

Haozheng Xu; Alistair Weld; Chi Xu; Alfie Roddan; Joao Cartucho; Mert Asim Karaoglu; Alexander Ladikos; Yangke Li; Yiping Li; Daiyun Shen; Geonhee Lee; Seyeon Park; Jongho Shin; Young-Gon Kim; Lucy Fothergill; Dominic Jones; Pietro Valdastri; Duygu Sarikaya; Stamatia Giannarou

doi:10.1016/j.media.2025.103674

arXiv · 2501.02990

SurgRIPE challenge: Benchmark of Surgical Robot Instrument Pose Estimation

Haozheng Xu·Alistair Weld·Chi Xu·Alfie Roddan·Joao Cartucho·Mert Asim Karaoglu·Alexander Ladikos·Yangke Li·Yiping Li·Daiyun Shen·Geonhee Lee·Seyeon Park·Jongho Shin·Young-Gon Kim·Lucy Fothergill·Dominic Jones·Pietro Valdastri·Duygu Sarikaya·Stamatia Giannarou

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Accurate instrument pose estimation is a crucial step towards the future of robotic surgery, enabling applications such as autonomous surgical task execution. Vision-based methods for surgical instrument pose estimation provide a practical approach to tool tracking, but they often require markers to be attached to the instruments. Recently, more research has focused on the development of marker-less methods based on deep learning. However, acquiring realistic surgical data, with ground truth instrument poses, required for deep learning training, is challenging. To address the issues in surgical instrument pose estimation, we introduce the Surgical Robot Instrument Pose Estimation (SurgRIPE) challenge, hosted at the 26th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) in 2023. The objectives of this challenge are: (1) to provide the surgical vision community with realistic surgical video data paired with ground truth instrument poses, and (2) to establish a benchmark for evaluating markerless pose estimation methods. The challenge led to the development of several novel algorithms that showcased improved accuracy and robustness over existing methods. The performance evaluation study on the SurgRIPE dataset highlights the potential of these advanced algorithms to be integrated into robotic surgery systems, paving the way for more precise and autonomous surgical procedures. The SurgRIPE challenge has successfully established a new benchmark for the field, encouraging further research and development in surgical robot instrument pose estimation.

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Haozheng Xu, Alistair Weld, Chi Xu, Alfie Roddan, Joao Cartucho, Mert Asim Karaoglu, Alexander Ladikos, Yangke Li, Yiping Li, Daiyun Shen, Geonhee Lee, Seyeon Park, Jongho Shin, Young-Gon Kim, Lucy Fothergill, Dominic Jones, Pietro Valdastri, Duygu Sarikaya, Stamatia Giannarou. 2025-05-31. SurgRIPE challenge: Benchmark of Surgical Robot Instrument Pose Estimation. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.media.2025.103674

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