SurgCast: Action-Conditioned Future Skeletons for Controllable Surgical World Models

arXiv:2610.15645 · cs.CV · Submitted 2026-10-11 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-10-11

Updated: 2026-10-11

Comments: 9 pages, 7 figures

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• World Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes

Sources

• DragNUWA: Fine-grained Control in Video Generation by Integrating Text, Image, and Trajectory
• SAW: Toward a Surgical Action World Model via Controllable and Scalable Video Generation
• From Articulated Kinematics to Routed Visual Control for Action-Conditioned Surgical Video Generation
• Learning Real-World Action-Video Dynamics with Heterogeneous Masked Autoregression
• Open-H-Embodiment: A Large-Scale Dataset for Enabling Foundation Models in Medical Robotics
• World Simulation with Video Foundation Models for Physical AI

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