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    Automated triage of non-informative frames in minimally invasive surgical videos: a comparative study of domain-specific vision transformers versus general-purpose multimodal models

    • Peilin Li
    • Juanjuan Li
    • Qingyi Liu

    Background Minimally invasive surgery (MIS) videos support education and quality review, but raw recordings contain non-informative frames that impede review and increase storage. Methods We retrospectively analyzed 300,832 frames from 120 MIS videos...

    23 October 2026
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    Lightweight Vision Transformer-Based Multimodal Biometric Recognition Using Feature-Level Fusion of Iris and Finger Vein Patterns

    • Jeremiah Ocheni
    • Immanuel Johnraja Jebadurai
    • Allan Melvin Andrew

    Multimodal biometric systems have gained increasing attention due to their ability to improve the reliability and security of user authentication. This study presents FI-VeT (Feature Fusion-based Iris-Finger Vein Vision Transformer), a lightweight...

    21 October 2026 Open access
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    Cross-platform adaptation in robotic total knee arthroplasty: transitioning from an image-based semiactive robot to autonomous and imageless systems

    • Narayan Hulse
    • Sushanth B. Basavaraddi
    • Rahul Desai

    Background Despite the widespread adoption of robotic systems for knee arthroplasty, the impact of prior robotic surgical experience on the transition to different robotic systems remains limited. Adaptation patterns across robotic platforms during...

    21 October 2026 Open access
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