SurgFusion-Net: Diversified Adaptive Multimodal Fusion Network for Surgical Skill Assessment

IEEE Trans Med Imaging. 2026 Aug 10;PP. doi: 10.1109/TMI.2026.3722251. Online ahead of print. ABSTRACT Robotic-assisted surgery (RAS) is established in clinical practice, and automated surgical skill assessment utilizing multimodal data offers transformative potential for surgical analytics and education. However, developing effective multimodal methods remains challenging due to the task complexity, limited annotated datasets and insufficient […]