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Action-grounded tissue affordance enables anticipatory auto-framing that lowers surgeon cognitive workload during laparoscopic surgery

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TL;DR - DiffeoAfford is an action-grounded tissue affordance framework that mines visual-attention supervision retrospectively from completed laparoscopic procedures, powering a real-time auto-framing assistant (AffordView) that measurably lowers surgeon cognitive workload. It matters because it sidesteps the dense, expert-tacit spatial annotation bottleneck that has blocked surgical attention models.

  • Labels are generated automatically by combining diffeomorphism-constrained tissue tracking with instrument trajectory analysis, yielding affordance hotspots without per-frame manual annotation.
  • A real-time prediction model trained on these auto-derived labels anticipates surgically relevant regions, driving the AffordView assistive laparoscopic auto-framing system.
  • Validation is reported along two axes: label/prediction agreement with expert annotations and intraoperative surgeon gaze, plus real-world workload reduction measured subjectively, physiologically, and behaviorally.
  • Content is abstract-only, so specific datasets, metrics, baselines, and effect sizes are not available here.

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Action-grounded tissue affordance enables anticipatory auto-framing that lowers surgeon cognitive workload during laparoscopic surgery

arXiv cs.CV Jiayu Gu, Yiwei Wang, Jie Zhang, Guojun Cao, Keshen Lyu, Song Zhou, Yimeng Chen, Haorui Wang, Qingmin Feng, Shenchao Shi, Huan Zhao, Wenbin Chen, Caihua Xiong, Chidan Wan, Jing Samantha Pan, Xiong Cai, Han Ding 2026-08-03 arXiv:2608.02471
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TL;DR - DiffeoAfford is an action-grounded tissue affordance framework that mines visual-attention supervision retrospectively from completed laparoscopic procedures, powering a real-time auto-framing assistant (AffordView) that measurably lowers surgeon cognitive workload. It matters because it sidesteps the dense, expert-tacit spatial annotation bottleneck that has blocked surgical attention models.

  • Labels are generated automatically by combining diffeomorphism-constrained tissue tracking with instrument trajectory analysis, yielding affordance hotspots without per-frame manual annotation.
  • A real-time prediction model trained on these auto-derived labels anticipates surgically relevant regions, driving the AffordView assistive laparoscopic auto-framing system.
  • Validation is reported along two axes: label/prediction agreement with expert annotations and intraoperative surgeon gaze, plus real-world workload reduction measured subjectively, physiologically, and behaviorally.
  • Content is abstract-only, so specific datasets, metrics, baselines, and effect sizes are not available here.
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