From Phase Grounding to Intelligent Surgical Narratives

ArXi:2603.05732v1 Announce Type: new Video surgery timelines are an important part of tool-assisted surgeries, as they allow surgeons to quickly focus on key parts of the procedure. Current methods involve the surgeon filling out a post-operation (OP) report, which is often vague, or manually annotating the surgical videos, which is highly time-consuming. Our proposed method sits between these two extremes: we aim to automatically create a surgical timeline and narrative directly from the surgical video.