Publications

Towards Effective Surgical Representation Learning with DINO Models

Ronald de Jong, Yiping Li, Tim Jaspers, Romy van Jaarsveld, Gino Kuiper, Franco Badaloni, Richard van Hillegersberg, Jelle Ruurda, Fons van der Sommen, Josien Pluim, Marcel Breeuwer

Accepted by Medical Imaging with Deep Learning (MIDL) 2026

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Analysis of Transferability Estimation Metrics for Surgical Phase Recognition

Prabhant Singh, Yiping Li, Yasmina Al Khalil

Data Engineering in Medical Imaging (DEMI) Workshop (3rd Edition) - Satellite Event MICCAI 2025

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Do segmentation metrics reflect clinical reality? A surgeon-centered evaluation in robot-assisted minimally invasive esophagectomy

Ronald de Jong, Yiping Li, Romy van Jaarsveld, Gino Kuiper, Richard van Hillegersberg, Jelle Ruurda, Josien Pluim, Marcel Breeuwer & Yasmina Al Khalil

Surgical Endoscopy 40.1 (2026): 277-290.

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SemiVT-Surge: Semi-Supervised Video Transformer for Surgical Phase Recognition

Yiping Li, Ronald de Jong, Sahar Nasirihaghighi, Tim Jaspers, Romy van Jaarsveld, Gino Kuiper, Richard van Hillegersberg, Fons van der Sommen, Jelle Ruurda, Marcel Breeuwer, Yasmina Al Khalil

International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) 2025

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Scaling up Self-Supervised Learning for Improved Surgical Foundation Models

Tim J.M. Jaspers, Ronald L.P.D. de Jong, Yiping Li, Carolus H.J. Kusters, Franciscus H.A. Bakker, Romy C. van Jaarsveld, Gino M. Kuiper, Richard van Hillegersberg, Jelle P. Ruurda, Willem M. Brinkman, and others

Medical Image Analysis (2025): 103873.

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Benchmarking Pretrained Attention-Based Models for Real-Time Recognition in Robot-Assisted Esophagectomy

Ronald L.P.D. de Jong, Yasmina Al Khalil, Tim J.M. Jaspers, Romy C. van Jaarsveld, Gino M. Kuiper, Yiping Li, Richard van Hillegersberg, Jelle P. Ruurda, Marcel Breeuwer, Fons van der Sommen

SPIE Medical Imaing (2025)

arXiv

Benchmarking and Enhancing Surgical Phase Recognition Models for Robotic-Assisted Esophagectomy

Yiping Li, Romy van Jaarsveld, Ronald de Jong, Jasper Bongers, Gino Kuiper, Richard van Hillegersberg, Jelle Ruurda, Marcel Breeuwer, Yasmina Al Khalil

SPIE Medical Imaing (2025)

arXiv

Exploring the Effect of Dataset Diversity in Self-Supervised Learning for Surgical Computer Vision

Tim J.M. Jaspers, Ronald L.P.D. de Jong, Yasmina Al Khalil, Tijn Zeelenberg, Carolus H.J. Kusters, Yiping Li, Romy C. van Jaarsveld, Franciscus H.A. Bakker, Jelle P. Ruurda, Willem M. Brinkmann, Peter H.N. de With and Fons van der Sommen

Data Engineering in Medical Imaging (DEMI) Workshop (2rd Edition) - Satellite Event MICCAI 2024

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Deep learning-based recognition of key anatomical structures during robot-assisted minimally invasive esophagectomy

Robin Den Boer, Tim J.M. Jaspers, Cas De Jongh, Josien P.W. Pluim, Fons van der Sommen, Tim G.W. Boers, Richard van Hillegersberg, Maureen A.J.M. Van Eijnatten and Jelle P. Ruurda P. Ruurda

Surgical Endoscopy - Volume 37 - Issue 7, July 2023

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Computer-Aided Anatomy Recognition in Intrathoracic and Abdominal Surgery: A Systematic Review

Robin Den Boer, C. de Jongh, W.T.E. Huijbers, T.J.M. Jaspers, J.P.W. Pluim, R. van Hillegersberg, M. Van Eijnatten, J.P. Ruurda

Surgical Endoscopy, 36(12), 8737–8752 (2022), Springer

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