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[Submitted on 27 Jul 2024] View a PDF of the paper titled GP-VLS: A general-purpose vision language model for surgery, by Samuel Schmidgall and 3 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:Surgery requires comprehensive medical knowledge, visual assessment skills, and procedural expertise. While recent surgical AI models have focused on solving task-specific problems, there is a need for general-purpose systems that can understand surgical scenes and interact through natural language. This paper introduces GP-VLS, a general-purpose vision language model for surgery that integrates medical and surgical knowledge with visual scene understanding. For comprehensively evaluating general-purpose surgical models, we propose SurgiQual,…