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pith:3PSDDTOF

pith:2026:3PSDDTOFV2XMWHBUYQLOWAQOMW

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Toward Mask Annotation-Free Surgical Instrument Segmentation from Endoscopic Images Using Text-Prompted Segment Anything Model 3 (SAM3)

Cristian A. Linte, Nakul Poudel, Richard Simon

arxiv:2608.08844 v1 · 2026-08-09 · cs.CV

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3PSDDTOFV2XMWHBUYQLOWAQOMW}

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First computed	2026-08-11T01:25:30.983800Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

dbe431cdc5aeaecb1c34c416eb020e65872daaa86585b33d04502c7d04ce7cc1

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.08844 · arxiv_version: 2608.08844v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.08844 · pith_short_12: 3PSDDTOFV2XM · pith_short_16: 3PSDDTOFV2XMWHBU · pith_short_8: 3PSDDTOF

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/3PSDDTOFV2XMWHBUYQLOWAQOMW \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: dbe431cdc5aeaecb1c34c416eb020e65872daaa86585b33d04502c7d04ce7cc1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8b74d50c07ae17d9b6fab239662a0a3681d8ec5ad508d8fbf262e7dc0a923742",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CV",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-09T18:11:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e8244f6e332e0ef577ecd479fb300e642749068ba06e679b8eb24c66b0765998"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.08844",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}