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Endoscopy research studies how to interpret images and videos from procedures such as colonoscopy, capsule endoscopy, bronchoscopy, and laryngoscopy, as well as how to guide robotic instruments. Common approaches include neural networks and vision-language models for detection, classification, segmentation, and reporting; temporal models for analyzing long videos; and depth estimation, mapping, and reinforcement learning for navigation. Datasets and benchmarks support evaluation of tasks ranging from polyp detection and disease scoring to 3D reconstruction and autonomous control. A central challenge is making systems reliable across different devices, patients, and real-world procedures, while ensuring that their visual evidence and actions are clinically sound.

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  1. Investigating the trackability of landmarks in NBI and WLI

    Oct 23, 2026Jonas Below, Piermarco Gerli, Anna Jötten +5Point TrackingEndoscopy

    Institute of Medical Technology and Intelligent Systems, Hamburg University of Technology, Hamburg, Germany · Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery and Oncology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Martinistraße 52, Hamburg, Germany · LMU Klinikum, Marchioninistr. 15, 81377 München, Germany

  2. EBV-CAN: Vision--Language Grounding for Contact-Aided Endoscope Navigation

    Oct 22, 2026Chi Kit Ng, Shuchang Liu, Jinsong Lin +4Robotic EndoscopyEndoscopy

    The Chinese University of Hong Kong. · National University of Singapore.

  3. Dense Endoluminal Mapping and Localisation from Monocular Bronchoscopy

    Oct 12, 2026Salvatore Esposito, Matias Mattamala, Daniel Rebain +4Simultaneous Localization and MappingEndoscopic 3D Reconstruction

    University of Edinburgh · University of British Columbia

  4. SCOPE-4D: Endoscopic 4D Geometry Foundation Models

    Oct 1, 2026Chaoyi Zhou, Zhongpai Gao, Anwesa Choudhuri +6Endoscopic 3D ReconstructionEndoscopy

    United Imaging Intelligence, Boston, MA, USA · Clemson University, Clemson, SC, USA

  5. ColoACT: Multi-Cue Action Chunking for Smooth Autonomous Colon Navigation on a Self-Propelled Endoscopic Robot

    Oct 1, 2026Jian Hu, Shujing He, Leixin Chang +4EndoscopyRobot Policy Learning

    Department of Mechanical and Energy Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, 518055, China · School of Mechanical Engineering and ZJU-UIUC Institute, Zhejiang University, Zhejiang, China · School of Mechanical Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072, China

  6. BronchoTop: Bronchoscopy Navigation via RGB-Only Topological Localization

    Sep 23, 2026Clara Tomasini, Ana Cristina Murillo, Luis RiazueloEndoscopyMap-Based Localization

    DIIS - I3A - Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain

  7. Laryngeal Structure Segmentation in High-Speed Videoendoscopy Using Deep Learning

    Sep 22, 2026Sardar Nafis Bin Ali, Mohsen Zayernouri, Dimitar D. Deliyski +1Medical Image SegmentationEndoscopy

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, Michigan State University, 428 S. Shaw Lane, East Lansing, 48824, MI, USA. · Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders, Michigan State University, 1026 Red Cedar Rd, East Lansing, 48824, MI, USA.

  8. Gaze responses to false-positive computer-aided detection prompts during colonoscopy: a paired-video and real-time eye-tracking study

    Sep 22, 2026Te Luo, Yan Zhu, Peiyao Fu +5EndoscopyMedical Image Analysis

    Digital Medical Research Center, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China · Shanghai Key Laboratory of MICCAI, Shanghai, China · Endoscopy Center and Endoscopy Research Institute, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China +4

  9. StenoVLA-3D: 3D-Aware Reasoning VLA for Navigation Through Gastrointestinal Stenoses

    Sep 21, 2026Tamima Tabassum, Yiming Huang, Tianchun Wu +7EndoscopyRobotics

    *Equal contributor · †Corresponding author

  10. ARCGym: Benchmarking Deep Reinforcement Learning in Autonomous Robotic Colonoscopy

    Sep 19, 2026Guanglin Ji, Martina Finocchiaro, Kenny Erleben +1Robotic EndoscopyRL Benchmarks

    Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

  11. ERCPMP-Gx: Endoscopic Image and Video Dataset for Morphological, Histopathological, and Genomic Characterization of Colorectal Polyposis

    Sep 17, 2026Zahra Ghaffari, Massih Bahar, Mojgan Forootan +2EndoscopyMedical Image Benchmarks

    Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. · Familial & Hereditary Cancers Institute, Tehran, Iran. · Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran. +1

  12. Lesion-centered 3D mapping of colonoscopy procedures: validation of a hierarchical ensemble pipeline on public benchmark videos

    Sep 15, 2026Hyunjun Kim, Hyeonwoo Na, Jaewoo LeeEndoscopy3D Reconstruction

    School of Computing, KAIST, Daejeon, Republic of Korea · Clinical Imaging Research Institute, Seoul, Republic of Korea · Division of Mechanical and Space Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan +1

  13. CapsuleMotion: A Lightweight Real-Time Visual Motion Predictor for Capsule Endoscopy

    Sep 14, 2026Oliver Bause, Julia Werner, Oliver BringmannEndoscopyMedical Imaging

    University of Tübingen, Faculty of Science, Department of Computer Science, Embedded Systems Group

  14. woma: a real-time foundation model and its fine-tuned models for endoscopy

    Sep 14, 2026Thang Tran, Lan DangEndoscopyMedical Imaging Foundation Models

    CloudKites AI Lab · Monash Business School, Monash University

  15. Proximal-Only Transmission Matrix Recovery of an Arbitrarily Deformed Graded-Index Multimode Fiber

    Sep 14, 2026Cole ReynoldsEndoscopyInverse Problems

    Weyl Labs

  16. MultiAttenGastro: Multi-Dimensional Attention Augmentation for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Classification

    Sep 4, 2026Sadhana Devarajan, Praveen Kumar Chandaliya, Dhruvin Jashvant Kumar Shah +2Medical Image ClassificationAttention Mechanisms

    Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat, Gujarat, India · Swasthyam Gastro and Liver Hospital, Surat, Gujarat, India · Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

  17. UnCapsTSR: An Unsupervised Transformer-based Image Super-Resolution Approach for Capsule Endoscopy Images

    Sep 2, 2026Anjali Sarvaiya, Shubh Kawa, Lalit Agrawal +3Image Super-ResolutionEndoscopy

    Department of Electronics Engineering, Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat, India

  18. From Generalist to Specialist: A Context-Fusion Framework for Endoscopic Polyp Reporting with a Frozen VLM

    Aug 16, 2026Ruijie Yang, Yan Zhu, Peiyao Fu +7VLM AdaptationMedical VLMs

    Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China · Shanghai Institute for Advanced Study, Zhejiang University, Shanghai, China · Shanghai Key Laboratory of MICCAI, Shanghai, China +4

  19. On the Robustness of Temporal Vision-Language Models for Surgical Endoscopy Videos

    Aug 14, 2026Darakshan Rashid, Raza Imam, Ufaq Khan +9VLM RobustnessTemporal Video Understanding

    Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), UAE · Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India · Birmingham City University, UK +3

  20. TRUE-Colon: Exposing a Consistent Transfer Asymmetry in Real-Time Polyp Detection

    Aug 13, 2026Sebastian Doerrich, Andreas Franz Schwab, Francesco Di Salvo +3Medical Image BenchmarksEndoscopy

    XAI Lab Bamberg, University of Bamberg, Bamberg, Germany

  21. Agentic AI-powered flexible fiber-bundle endoscopy for high-resolution NIR-II fluorescence imaging in vivo

    Aug 9, 2026Yanzhao Shi, Yuanhua Liu, Sixin Xu +10EndoscopyMixture of Experts

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, School of Biomedical Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China. · Materials Innovation Institute for Life Sciences and Energy (MILES), The University of Hong Kong Shenzhen Institute of Research and Innovation (HKU-SIRI), Shenzhen 518045, China. · Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China. +3

  22. Representation-driven Endoscopic Visual Embedding Alignment for Latent Generation

    Aug 7, 2026Francisco Caetano, Tim J. M. Jaspers, Haiko Middeljans +7EndoscopyDiffusion Transformer

    Department of Electrical Engineering, ARIA Lab, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands · Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  23. Boosting Generalizable Depth Estimation in Endoscopy by Mixture of Lightweight Experts and Intrinsic Image Alignment

    Aug 1, 2026Liangjing Shao, Beilei Cui, Yiming Huang +2EndoscopyDepth Estimation

    Department of Electronic Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China · Shenzhen Loop Area Institute, China

  24. Performance of large language models in the optical diagnosis of colorectal polyps

    Jul 31, 2026Joshua C. Vences, William T. Tran, Nikko Gimpaya +15EndoscopyMultimodal Large Language Models

    1. Scarborough Health Network Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 2. Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, and The SickKids Learning and Research Institutes, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 3. Department of Paediatrics, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada +11

  25. A report-grounded vision-language foundation model for colonoscopy from 280000 routine reports

    Jul 30, 2026Jia Yu, Yan Zhu, Yili He +12EndoscopyMedical VLMs

    Digital Medical Research Center, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China. · Shanghai Collaborative Innovation Center of Endoscopy, Shanghai, China. · Shanghai Institute for Advanced Study of Zhejiang University, Shanghai, China. +5

  26. Towards Grounded GI Endoscopy VQA via Multi-Task Learning on Small VLMs

    Jul 29, 2026Itbaan Safwan, Ramail Khan, Muhammad Annas Shaikh +1EndoscopyMedical VQA

    Institute of Business and Administration, Karachi, Pakistan

  27. ASTRA-Net: Anatomy-Specific Transfer and Representation Alignment for Drug-Induced Sleep Endoscopy Segmentation

    Jul 23, 2026Suhua Sun, Yuqiao Wang, Sheng Liu +6Cross-Modality Medical Image SegmentationEndoscopy

    Department of Otolaryngology, Peking University Third Hospital, Beijing, China · Institute of Medical Technology, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, China · National Biomedical Imaging Center, College of Future Technology, Peking University, Beijing, China

  28. Benchmarking the Domain Gap: Model Selection Instability Under Domain Shift in Video Capsule Endoscopy

    Jul 22, 2026Dan Hanson, Debesh JhaEndoscopyMedical Imaging

    Department of Computer Science · Biomedical Perception & Intelligence Lab · University of South Dakota +1

  29. Measuring and Improving Complex-Atomic Answer Consistency in Endoscopic VQA

    Jul 20, 2026Yuhao Liu, Cheng Zhao, Guanghui YueVLM EvaluationEndoscopy

    School of Biomedical Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China

  30. Medical Imaging Fusing Vision Transformer: Laryngeal Cancer Screening with Explanation

    Jul 20, 2026Haiyang Wang, Luca MainardiEndoscopyMedical Imaging

    Department of Electrical, Information and Bioengineering Polytechnic University of Milan Milan, Italy · Department of of Electrical, Information and Bioengineering Polytechnic University of Milan Milan, Italy