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Joint AE-CAI | OR 2.0 | CARE | PRiSM Workshop @ MICCAI 2026

2026 AE-CAI PROGRAM

*Note: Paper numbers in this program are based on the CMT submission ID.

📍 Room: Amsterdam, Floor G

8. When Do Reproducible Scores Support a Valid Comparison in Dynamic Endoscopic Reconstruction?

13. GC-EndoGaussian: Residual-Centered Sparse Control for Editable Endoscopic 4D Gaussian Reconstruction

1. Endo-DGS: A Deformable 3D Gaussian Splatting Pipeline for Occlusion-Robust, Photorealistic 4D Endoscopic Reconstruction

17. EndoPASWave: Foundation Model Adaptation via PAS-LoRA and Wavelet-Domain Decoding for Endoscopic Metric Depth Estimation

30. Bright ≠ Near: Auditing and Mitigating Illumination Shortcuts in Ground-Truth-Free Endoscopic Depth

35. SpectralRegNet: Self-Supervised Spectral Constraints for Low-Overlap Partial Non-rigid Laparoscopic Point Cloud Registration

40. Appearance Transfer Shader for Gaussian Splatting in Endoscopic Images

27. Evaluating Transformation Models for pCLE Mosaic Registration

32. Registration of Stereo Endoscopy to CT through Semantic Relations

28. Training-Free Construction of 3D Time-Series Surgical Scene Graphs via Surface-Normal-Guided Segmentation

50. A Fast Framework for Metric 3D Reconstructions and Vision-Based Tracking for Surgical Robotic Platforms

2. Point-and-Shoot Targeting for Efficient Neurosurgical Trajectory Planning in Mobile Augmented Reality

3. Inter-Operator Variability in Augmented Reality-Guided Breast Tumor Localization

15. Phantom Validation of an AR/VR Guidance Framework for Complex Articular Fracture Reduction

16. Depth-Augmented 3D–2D Liver Registration with Statistical Shape-Space Refinement for Laparoscopic AR

25. In-room Calibration of a Time-of-Flight Sensor Using Surface Reconstruction for Augmented Reality-Guided Surgery

29. Parameter-Efficient Adaptation of SAM3 for Left Atrium Segmentation from MR Images for Improved Planning and Guidance of Cardiac Ablation Interventions

46. Feasibility of Augmented Reality-Guided Robotic Ultrasound with Cone-Beam CT Integration for Spine Procedures

51. Towards Practical Mobile Augmented Reality Guidance for Ventriculostomy

36. Towards Automated Initial Probe Placement in Transthoracic Teleultrasound Using Human Mesh and Skeleton Recovery

54. A Low-Latency Mixed Reality Teleoperation Console for Bedside Robotic Surgery

10. hudini: Recovering da Vinci Xi System State from the Heads-Up Display in Surgical Video

4. Annotation-Free Representation Learning for Colonoscopy Video Retrieval

22. Automatic Segmentation of Complex Right Colonic Vasculature: A Novel Dataset and Feasibility Benchmark

23. Safer Female Pelvic Laparoscopy: Spatio-temporal Mamba-based Ureter Segmentation with U-Net Refinement

41. Explainable Transformer-Based Phase Recognition for Transabdominal Preperitoneal Laparoscopic Inguinal Hernia Repair

55. Semantic RGB–Depth Based Surgical Skill Assessment in Microscopic Stereo Videos

44. Objective Skill Assessment Using RGB-D Cameras in Central Venous Catheterization

11. BLISS: A Browser-Based Cross-Platform Patient-Specific Liver Surgery Simulator with AR/VR Support

43. Patient-Specific Virtual Reality for Lumbar Decompression Surgery: An Automated Imaging Pipeline and Educational Assessment

47. AnatomyCarve: Interactive Segment-Aware Anatomical Exploration for Surgical Planning and Education

45. The Effect of Virtual Reality and Haptic Feedback on the Learning Curve for Ultrasound-Guided Peripheral Intravenous Catheter Insertion

58. Gaze-Based Evaluation of Stereoscopic AR vs. Standard 2D for Minimally Invasive Surgical Training

39. The Effects of Virtual Reality and Child Life Preparation on Anxiety in Pediatric Magnetic Resonance Imaging: A Randomized Crossover Study