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Depth Found the Contact That Color Couldn’t Transfer

A stereo-distance signal held a 0.927 macro F1 across new surgical tasks and phantoms while an RGB baseline fell to 0.320.

Published Updated Story ID: mp-2026-08-20-006
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Summary

A stereo-distance signal held a 0.927 macro F1 across new surgical tasks and phantoms while an RGB baseline fell to 0.320.

The detector reduces stereo depth around a surgical tool boundary to one distance-derived scalar and models contact as a two-state process. Trained on six palpation sessions and tested on four held-out sessions, it reached 0.927 macro F1 and 0.980 AUPRC across same- and cross-phantom settings. The comparison uses silicone phantoms, so the study supports a transferable cue rather than clinical performance in living tissue.

Why it matters

A stereo-distance signal held a 0.927 macro F1 across new surgical tasks and phantoms while an RGB baseline fell to 0.320.

Limits and context

No additional limitation was separately recorded.

Key claims

  1. A stereo-distance signal held a 0.927 macro F1 across new surgical tasks and phantoms while an RGB baseline fell to 0.320.

    Evidence: source-2026-08-20-006

Sources

  1. arXiv preprint 2608.18270arXiv · primary research

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