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Medical and surgical world models

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Keywords: surgical, clinical, medical, patient, dynamics

Key facts. Medical and surgical world models: 55 papers on arXiv since 2019 (data through 7 Oct 2026). 10 of its 55 mapped papers (18%) cite “Surgical Vision World Model” (2025, arXiv 2503.02904). 10 of its 55 mapped papers (18%) cite “Cosmos-H-Surgical: Learning Surgical Robot Policies from Videos via World Modeling” (2025, arXiv 2512.23162). 12 new papers 17 Sep–7 Oct.

What’s new

17 Sep – 7 Oct 2026

12 new papers, 17 Sep – 7 Oct; 5 this week.

  1. This week · 5
  2. UltraWorld: Learning Interactive Ultrasound World Models from Untracked Clinical Videos with Acoustic Sampling Map
  3. Patient, Place, Prior (P3): What Counts as Personalization in Medical World Models?
  4. A Belief-State World Model for Catheter Navigation under Sparse Fluoroscopy: A Planar Proof of Concept
  5. Federated Bayesian Surveillance of Mechanical Thrombectomy Adverse Events: A Population Risk Layer for Surgical Digital Twins
  6. Ultrasound Operator Guidance Using World Modeling and Retrieval Based Action Planning
  7. Earlier · 7
  8. Same Predictions, Different Harms: Causal Auditing of Patient World Models
  9. Repeated-Measure Leakage, Distribution Shift, and Reliability under Partial Observation in Patient World Models
  10. VCLMU: Mechanism-Centric Virtual Cell World Modeling for Perturbation Response also fits: Latent predictive world models
  11. Understanding Trajectory Heterogeneity in Federated World Model Learning
  12. Scanning While Imagining: A Scene-Graph World Model for Robotic Ultrasound Navigation
All 12
  1. REMEDY: How Far Is Video Generation from Medical Education World Models?
  2. Intervention Granularity Matters: Coherent Treatment Bundles in Counterfactual Simulation with Clinical World Models

Foundations

Most cited by papers here

  1. Surgical Vision World Model2025cited by 10 here
  2. Cosmos-H-Surgical: Learning Surgical Robot Policies from Videos via World Modeling2025cited by 10 here
  3. World Models for General Surgical Grasping2024cited by 7 here
  4. CheXWorld: Exploring Image World Modeling for Radiograph Representation Learning2025cited by 7 here
  5. Medical World Model: Generative Simulation of Tumor Evolution for Treatment Planning2025cited by 7 here

Lineage

The papers this direction builds on, oldest first.

Each paper on the line cites the one before.

  1. 2018World Modelscited by 23 here
  2. 2018Learning Latent Dynamics for Planning from Pixelscited by 12 here
  3. 2019Dream to Control: Learning Behaviors by Latent Imaginationcited by 15 here
  4. 2020Mastering Atari with Discrete World Modelscited by 8 here
  5. 2023Mastering Diverse Domains through World Modelscited by 12 here
  6. 2023GAIA-1: A Generative World Model for Autonomous Drivingcited by 9 here
  7. 2025CheXWorld: Exploring Image World Modeling for Radiograph Representation Learningcited by 7 here
  8. 2025Beyond Generative AI: World Models for Clinical Prediction, Counterfactuals, and Planningcited by 5 here
16 more it builds on, not in this chain
  1. 2018Recurrent World Models Facilitate Policy Evolutioncited by 11 here
  2. 2020An Image is Worth 16x16 Words: Transformers for Image Recognition at Scalecited by 5 here
  3. 2022Flow Matching for Generative Modelingcited by 6 here
  4. 2023Self-Supervised Learning from Images with a Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecturecited by 10 here
  5. 2023TD-MPC2: Scalable, Robust World Models for Continuous Controlcited by 5 here
  6. 2024Revisiting Feature Prediction for Learning Visual Representations from Videocited by 6 here
  7. 2024Genie: Generative Interactive Environmentscited by 12 here
  8. 2024World Models for General Surgical Graspingcited by 7 here
  9. 2025Surgical Vision World Modelcited by 10 here
  10. 2025Wan: Open and Advanced Large-Scale Video Generative Modelscited by 5 here
  11. 2025EchoWorld: Learning Motion-Aware World Models for Echocardiography Probe Guidancecited by 6 here
  12. 2025Medical World Model: Generative Simulation of Tumor Evolution for Treatment Planningcited by 7 here
  13. 2025V-JEPA 2: Self-Supervised Video Models Enable Understanding, Prediction and Planningcited by 7 here
  14. 2025How Far Are Surgeons from Surgical World Models? A Pilot Study on Zero-shot Surgical Video Generation with Expert Assessmentcited by 7 here
  15. 2025Cosmos-H-Surgical: Learning Surgical Robot Policies from Videos via World Modelingcited by 10 here
  16. 2026SAW: Toward a Surgical Action World Model via Controllable and Scalable Video Generationcited by 7 here

The 24 most cited of 112.

Browse

30 of 55, ranked 6–35

  1. 6SAW: Toward a Surgical Action World Model via Controllable and Scalable Video Generation20267
  2. 7How Far Are Surgeons from Surgical World Models? A Pilot Study on Zero-shot Surgical Video Generation with Expert Assessment20257
  3. 8EchoWorld: Learning Motion-Aware World Models for Echocardiography Probe Guidance20256
  4. 9Beyond Generative AI: World Models for Clinical Prediction, Counterfactuals, and Planning20255
  5. 10EHRWorld: A Patient-Centric Medical World Model for Long-Horizon Clinical Trajectories20264
  6. 11Towards Suturing World Models: Learning Predictive Models for Robotic Surgical Tasks20254
  7. 12World Model for AI Autonomous Navigation in Mechanical Thrombectomy20253
  8. 13CLARITY: Medical World Model for Guiding Treatment Decisions by Simulating Context-Aware Disease Trajectories20253
  9. 14The Patient is not a Moving Document: A World Model Training Paradigm for Longitudinal EHR20262
  10. 15Brain-WM: Brain Glioblastoma World Model20262
All 30
  1. 16Structure-aware World Model for Probe Guidance via Large-scale Self-supervised Pre-train20242
  2. 17Toward Safe Autonomous Robotic Endovascular Interventions using World Models20261
  3. 18Open-H-Embodiment: A Large-Scale Dataset for Enabling Foundation Models in Medical Robotics20261
  4. 19SWoMo: Neuro-Symbolic World Model for Cataract Surgery Simulation20261
  5. 20ChronoMedicalWorld: A Medical World Model for Learning Patient Trajectories from Longitudinal Care Data20261
  6. 21DreamReg: Belief-Driven World Model for 2D-3D Ultrasound Registration20261
  7. 22SurgVista: Long-Horizon Surgical World Modeling with Plausible Instrument-Tissue Dynamics20261
  8. 23SurgWMBench: A Vision-Based Benchmark for World-Modeling Surgical Instrument Motion Planning20261
  9. 24Visuomotor Grasping with World Models for Surgical Robots20251
  10. 25Contextual Invertible World Models: A Neuro-Symbolic Agentic Framework for Colorectal Cancer Drug Response20260
  11. 26EyeWorld: A Generative World Model of Ocular State and Dynamics20260
  12. 27Grounding Clinical AI Competency in Human Cognition Through the Clinical World Model and Skill-Mix Framework20260
  13. 28Sonata: A Hybrid World Model for Inertial Kinematics under Clinical Data Scarcity20260
  14. 29Beyond Patient Invariance: Learning Cardiac Dynamics via Action-Conditioned JEPAs20260
  15. 30Clin-JEPA: A Multi-Phase Co-Training Framework for Joint-Embedding Predictive Pretraining on EHR Patient Trajectories20260
  16. 31Agentifying Patient Dynamics within LLMs through Interacting with Clinical World Model20260
  17. 32Toward World Modeling of Physiological Signals with Chaos-Theoretic Balancing and Latent Dynamics20260
  18. 33Chreode: A Cell World Model for One-Step Temporal Dynamics and Perturbation Prediction20260
  19. 34Towards World Models in Biomedical Research20260
  20. 35Medical world models: representing medical states, modelling clinical dynamics and guiding intervention policies20260